In the spring of 2017, the State Office for Criminal Investigation Schleswig-Holstein conducted a representative survey of the population in the field of security and crime in Schleswig-Holstein for the second time, in which 11,614 people participated. In addition to experiences with crime in 2016, the reporting behavior, the fear… Read more →
Publications
On the development of violence in Germany. Focus: young people and refugees
On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ), Prof. Dr. Christian Pfeiffer, Director a.D. of the KFN, and Sören Kliem, Head of the Department of Darkfield Research at the KFN, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Dirk Baier, Head of the Institute for Delinquency… Read more →
New research report “Homicide of children aged 6-13 in Germany”
On 13th September 2017 KFN published a report the results of the project Homicide of children aged 6-13. The study – a follow-on project to the KFN research project on homicides of children aged 0-5 in Germany– had several focuses of enquiry. Firstly, it aimed to generate reliable data on the… Read more →
Article about video game addiction published
Paula Bleckmann and Nadine Jukschat published an article Artikel Why gaming is good nonetheless – strategies of neutralization among video game addicts and researchers in the social sciences in the current issue of the journal MedienPädagogik No. 27. http://www.medienpaed.com/article/view/486/470 In a first step, different current approaches toward describing the phenomenon of… Read more →
(Sehn-)Sucht Computerspiel: New study on computer game dependency published
“Computer game dependency” is defined in the current social and scientific discourse by medico-psychological perspectives, the players are tendently conceptualized as “ill.” The dissertation by Nadine Jukschat, published at BELTZ Juventa as a book, takes a different position and sketches dependent computer games. In the tradition of social scientific addiction… Read more →