NCJ Number
139090
Editor(s)
G Kaiser,
H Kury,
H-J Albrecht
Date Published
1988
Length
112 pages
Annotation
These five papers describe the nature and findings of criminological research conducted in the Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Austria, and Switzerland during the last 5 years.
Abstract
In West Germany, research has focused on correcting, refining, or corroborating common assumptions rather than on exploring new areas. Both the economic and the feminist perspectives are absent. In the German Democratic Republic, empirical research has focused mainly on the issues of juvenile delinquency, recidivism, and the social disintegration of delinquents. Austrian criminology is located at university institutes for penal law and lacks an independent and strong organizational structure. In recent years improved statistics on crime and corrections and efforts to focus research on the high prison populations have been emphasized by the government. In Switzerland, criminology is now taught in most universities and law schools, and research is aided by the data files compiled by the Federal Office of Statistics at Berne, the publications of the criminal law department of the University of Geneva, and the regional and national crime surveys.