Christian Pfeiffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Pfeiffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfeiffer |
| SIGNATURE | PFEIFFER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1227-8443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hans-Dieter Schwind: Nachruf auf einen großartigen Kollegen und Gründer des Kriminologischen Forschungsinstituts Niedersachsen
Article Hans-Dieter Schwind: Nachruf auf einen großartigen Kollegen und Gründer des Kriminologischen Forschungsinstituts Niedersachsen was published on May 16, 2025 in the journal Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform (volume 0, issue 0)
Aristotle on the Cause of Unity: The Argument of Metaphysics H.3–6
I argue that Metaphysics H.6 is not an isolated chapter but the conclusion of an argument begun in H.3. This view will provide further and better arguments for the following view about long-standing interpretative debates: first, Aristotle provides a substantive account of the unity of the composite substance (although he also briefly addresses the unity of the form); second, neither Aristotle’s conception of matter nor his account of form change…
Geoeconomics in International Relations: Neorealist and Neoliberal Conceptualizations
This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the concept of geoeconomics in International Relations (IR). It offers an accessible overview of the most important approaches, including their history, means and ends, methodology, ideological underpinnings, normative aspects, and practical relevance. Exploring the forgotten history of geoeconomics, and revealing its different meanings and usages over time, the author clearly differen…
Populism in power—A comparative analysis of populist governance
In this paper, we seek to explore whether populism, when in power, is guided by a particular logic of governance that can be derived from the logic of populism itself. To this end, we develop an ideal type of populist governance and apply it to case studies of India, the United States, Venezuela, and Hungary. Methodologically, the cross-regional comparison with a Most Different Systems Design is carried out through a structured, focused compariso…
Stephanie Ernst: Der Jugendarrest. Eine Betrachtung aus rechtshistorischer, rechtsdogmatischer und rechtstatsächlicher Perspektive
Formulaic Language and New Data: Theoretical and Methodological Implications
The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and a high degree of written norm. It was on the basis of these data that the theoretical framework and methodological approaches were developed. The volume shifts this focus by centering the investigation on new data, including dat…
Timothy Clarke: Aristotle and the Eleatic One
Aristotle's Theory of Bodies
Aristotle’s conception of body at the heart of this study is the notion of a three‐dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a physical substance. Substances have bodies: they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other, and they have boundaries which demarcate them from their surroundings. It is argued that body has a pivotal role in Aristotle’s natural philosophy…
How to Think the Infinite: A New Reading and Interpretation of Aristotle, Metaphysics 2.2, 994b21-27
In Metaphysics 2.2, 994b21-27 Aristotle comments on how it is possible to think something that is infinitely divisible. Given that Aristotle denies elsewhere that it is possible to think an infinite number of items the passage offers important evidence for Aristotle’s positive account of how one can think something that is infinite. However, Aristotle’s statement in Metaphysics 2.2 has puzzled interpreters since antiquity. This puzzlement has bee…
Representative Studies on Victimisation
Representative research on crime rates and their trends in Germany is sparse. A major research focus at the Criminology Research Institute in Lower Saxony, which is where all the papers compiled in this volume come from, is on victimisation. In recent years, research here was carried out on risk factors of victimisation, on vicitimsation of different population groups and on the consequences of victimisation. All the papers in this book centre on…
Experience of Parental Corporal Punishment in Childhood and Adolescence and its Effect on Punitiveness
The Perfection of Bodies: Aristotle’s De Caelo I.1
In this paper we give a detailed reconstruction of the first chapter of De Caelo I.1. Aristotle attempts to prove there that bodies are complete and perfect in virtue of being extended in three dimensions. We offer an analysis of this argument and argue that it gives important insight into the role the notion of body plays in physical science. Contrary to other interpretations, we argue that it is an argument about physical, as opposed to mathema…
Polizeibeamte als Opfer von Gewalt
Gewaltübergriffe auf Polizeibeamte vor allem im Rahmen von Demonstrationen oder Fußballspielen stehen in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit. Aktuelle Daten zum Ausmaß, zur Entwicklung und zu den Folgen der Gewaltübergriffe existieren für Deutschland allerdings nicht. Aus diesem Grund wurde im Jahr 2010 in zehn Bundesländern eine Befragung von über 20.000 Polizeibeamten durchgeführt. Mit dieser lässt sich erstens nachz…
Predictors of binge drinking in adolescents: Ultimate and distal factors - a representative study
Background As epidemiological surveys have shown, binge drinking is a constant and wide-spread problem behavior in adolescents. It is not rare to find that more than half of all adolescents engage in this behavior when assessing only the last 4 weeks of time independent of the urbanity of the region they live in. There have been several reviews on predictors of substance consumption in adolescents in general, but there has been less high quality …
Wirkung
Natürlich war Aristoteles der eigentliche Gründer der später ›Peripatos‹ genannten Schule. Diese Bezeichnung und diejenige ihrer Anhänger als ›Peripatetiker‹ kam vermutlich schon während des Scholarchats (Schulleitung) durch Aristoteles' unmittelbaren Nachfolger Theophrast auf, der dann auch im materiellen und juristischen Sinne den Bestand der Schule durch den Erwerb eines Grundstückes auf dem oder in der Nähe des Lykeion in Athen sichern konnte…
Learning to use novel objects: A training study on the acquisition of novel action representations
Mediennutzung als Ursache der schlechteren Schulleistungen von Jungen
An der Diagnose scheint kein Zweifel mehr zu bestehen: Mädchen erzielen, in Deutschland wie in anderen Ländern, mittlerweile bessere Schulleistungen und legen häufiger höherrangige Schulabschlüsse ab als Jungen. Quenzel und Hurrelmann (2010) belegen dies eindrucksvoll für drei Bereiche: Erstens betrug der Anteil der Jungen, die die Schule ohne Hauptschulabschluss verlassen, im Jahr 2006 9,7 Prozent, der Anteil der Mädchen hingegen nur 5,9 Prozent…
Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in adolescents: Comparison of different migration backgrounds and rural vs. urban residence - a representative study
Binge drinking is a common problem behavior in German adolescents. Obviously adolescents with rural residence have fewer alternatives for engaging in interesting leisure activities than adolescents living in cities. This might be one reason for the more problematic consumption patterns there. Common expectations concerning drinking behavior of adolescents of certain cultural backgrounds ('migrants with Russian background drink more'/'migrants fro…
Die Pisa-Verlierer und ihr Medienkonsum. Eine Analyse auf der Basis verschiedener empirischer Untersuchungen
Media, zło i społeczeństwo. Wykorzystanie mediów i ich wpływ na postrzeganie przestępczości i postawy wobec polityki karnej
ln democratic societies, crime policy and its management by parliaments and ministries largely depends on trends in crime. If, over a prolonged period. the media report strong upward trends in the number of crimes committed and if the public clebate on crime focuses on spectacular, serious crimes, policymakers come under heavy pressure to increase statutory punishments and tighten the rules of procedure for criminal prosecutions. The courts in tu…
Juvenile Crime and Violence in Europe
Since the early to mid-1980s, an increase in youth violence has been apparent in the United States and in ten European countries: England and Wales, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, France, Denmark, Switzerland, and Poland. In most of these countries rates of youth violence have been increasing even though youth crime rates overall appear to be stable or declining slightly and even though crime rates of older people are not incre…
Risiken des Heranwachsens: Probleme der Lebensbewältigung im Jugendalter
Populism in power—A comparative analysis of populist governance
In this paper, we seek to explore whether populism, when in power, is guided by a particular logic of governance that can be derived from the logic of populism itself. To this end, we develop an ideal type of populist governance and apply it to case studies of India, the United States, Venezuela, and Hungary. Methodologically, the cross-regional comparison with a Most Different Systems Design is carried out through a structured, focused compariso…
Experience of Parental Corporal Punishment in Childhood and Adolescence and its Effect on Punitiveness
Juvenile Crime and Violence in Europe
Since the early to mid-1980s, an increase in youth violence has been apparent in the United States and in ten European countries: England and Wales, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, France, Denmark, Switzerland, and Poland. In most of these countries rates of youth violence have been increasing even though youth crime rates overall appear to be stable or declining slightly and even though crime rates of older people are not incre…
Media, zło i społeczeństwo. Wykorzystanie mediów i ich wpływ na postrzeganie przestępczości i postawy wobec polityki karnej
ln democratic societies, crime policy and its management by parliaments and ministries largely depends on trends in crime. If, over a prolonged period. the media report strong upward trends in the number of crimes committed and if the public clebate on crime focuses on spectacular, serious crimes, policymakers come under heavy pressure to increase statutory punishments and tighten the rules of procedure for criminal prosecutions. The courts in tu…
Risiken des Heranwachsens: Probleme der Lebensbewältigung im Jugendalter
Juvenile Crime and Violence in Europe
Since the early to mid-1980s, an increase in youth violence has been apparent in the United States and in ten European countries: England and Wales, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, France, Denmark, Switzerland, and Poland. In most of these countries rates of youth violence have been increasing even though youth crime rates overall appear to be stable or declining slightly and even though crime rates of older people are not incre…
Media, zło i społeczeństwo. Wykorzystanie mediów i ich wpływ na postrzeganie przestępczości i postawy wobec polityki karnej
ln democratic societies, crime policy and its management by parliaments and ministries largely depends on trends in crime. If, over a prolonged period. the media report strong upward trends in the number of crimes committed and if the public clebate on crime focuses on spectacular, serious crimes, policymakers come under heavy pressure to increase statutory punishments and tighten the rules of procedure for criminal prosecutions. The courts in tu…
Die Pisa-Verlierer und ihr Medienkonsum. Eine Analyse auf der Basis verschiedener empirischer Untersuchungen
Wirkung
Natürlich war Aristoteles der eigentliche Gründer der später ›Peripatos‹ genannten Schule. Diese Bezeichnung und diejenige ihrer Anhänger als ›Peripatetiker‹ kam vermutlich schon während des Scholarchats (Schulleitung) durch Aristoteles' unmittelbaren Nachfolger Theophrast auf, der dann auch im materiellen und juristischen Sinne den Bestand der Schule durch den Erwerb eines Grundstückes auf dem oder in der Nähe des Lykeion in Athen sichern konnte…
Learning to use novel objects: A training study on the acquisition of novel action representations
Mediennutzung als Ursache der schlechteren Schulleistungen von Jungen
An der Diagnose scheint kein Zweifel mehr zu bestehen: Mädchen erzielen, in Deutschland wie in anderen Ländern, mittlerweile bessere Schulleistungen und legen häufiger höherrangige Schulabschlüsse ab als Jungen. Quenzel und Hurrelmann (2010) belegen dies eindrucksvoll für drei Bereiche: Erstens betrug der Anteil der Jungen, die die Schule ohne Hauptschulabschluss verlassen, im Jahr 2006 9,7 Prozent, der Anteil der Mädchen hingegen nur 5,9 Prozent…
Alcohol consumption and binge drinking in adolescents: Comparison of different migration backgrounds and rural vs. urban residence - a representative study
Binge drinking is a common problem behavior in German adolescents. Obviously adolescents with rural residence have fewer alternatives for engaging in interesting leisure activities than adolescents living in cities. This might be one reason for the more problematic consumption patterns there. Common expectations concerning drinking behavior of adolescents of certain cultural backgrounds ('migrants with Russian background drink more'/'migrants fro…
Polizeibeamte als Opfer von Gewalt
Gewaltübergriffe auf Polizeibeamte vor allem im Rahmen von Demonstrationen oder Fußballspielen stehen in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit. Aktuelle Daten zum Ausmaß, zur Entwicklung und zu den Folgen der Gewaltübergriffe existieren für Deutschland allerdings nicht. Aus diesem Grund wurde im Jahr 2010 in zehn Bundesländern eine Befragung von über 20.000 Polizeibeamten durchgeführt. Mit dieser lässt sich erstens nachz…
Predictors of binge drinking in adolescents: Ultimate and distal factors - a representative study
Background As epidemiological surveys have shown, binge drinking is a constant and wide-spread problem behavior in adolescents. It is not rare to find that more than half of all adolescents engage in this behavior when assessing only the last 4 weeks of time independent of the urbanity of the region they live in. There have been several reviews on predictors of substance consumption in adolescents in general, but there has been less high quality …
The Perfection of Bodies: Aristotle’s De Caelo I.1
In this paper we give a detailed reconstruction of the first chapter of De Caelo I.1. Aristotle attempts to prove there that bodies are complete and perfect in virtue of being extended in three dimensions. We offer an analysis of this argument and argue that it gives important insight into the role the notion of body plays in physical science. Contrary to other interpretations, we argue that it is an argument about physical, as opposed to mathema…
Experience of Parental Corporal Punishment in Childhood and Adolescence and its Effect on Punitiveness
Representative Studies on Victimisation
Representative research on crime rates and their trends in Germany is sparse. A major research focus at the Criminology Research Institute in Lower Saxony, which is where all the papers compiled in this volume come from, is on victimisation. In recent years, research here was carried out on risk factors of victimisation, on vicitimsation of different population groups and on the consequences of victimisation. All the papers in this book centre on…
Aristotle's Theory of Bodies
Aristotle’s conception of body at the heart of this study is the notion of a three‐dimensionally extended and continuous magnitude bounded by surfaces. This notion is distinct from the notion of a physical substance. Substances have bodies: they are extended, their parts are continuous with each other, and they have boundaries which demarcate them from their surroundings. It is argued that body has a pivotal role in Aristotle’s natural philosophy…
How to Think the Infinite: A New Reading and Interpretation of Aristotle, Metaphysics 2.2, 994b21-27
In Metaphysics 2.2, 994b21-27 Aristotle comments on how it is possible to think something that is infinitely divisible. Given that Aristotle denies elsewhere that it is possible to think an infinite number of items the passage offers important evidence for Aristotle’s positive account of how one can think something that is infinite. However, Aristotle’s statement in Metaphysics 2.2 has puzzled interpreters since antiquity. This puzzlement has bee…
Formulaic Language and New Data: Theoretical and Methodological Implications
The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and a high degree of written norm. It was on the basis of these data that the theoretical framework and methodological approaches were developed. The volume shifts this focus by centering the investigation on new data, including dat…
Timothy Clarke: Aristotle and the Eleatic One
Stephanie Ernst: Der Jugendarrest. Eine Betrachtung aus rechtshistorischer, rechtsdogmatischer und rechtstatsächlicher Perspektive
Populism in power—A comparative analysis of populist governance
In this paper, we seek to explore whether populism, when in power, is guided by a particular logic of governance that can be derived from the logic of populism itself. To this end, we develop an ideal type of populist governance and apply it to case studies of India, the United States, Venezuela, and Hungary. Methodologically, the cross-regional comparison with a Most Different Systems Design is carried out through a structured, focused compariso…
Geoeconomics in International Relations: Neorealist and Neoliberal Conceptualizations
This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the concept of geoeconomics in International Relations (IR). It offers an accessible overview of the most important approaches, including their history, means and ends, methodology, ideological underpinnings, normative aspects, and practical relevance. Exploring the forgotten history of geoeconomics, and revealing its different meanings and usages over time, the author clearly differen…
Aristotle on the Cause of Unity: The Argument of Metaphysics H.3–6
I argue that Metaphysics H.6 is not an isolated chapter but the conclusion of an argument begun in H.3. This view will provide further and better arguments for the following view about long-standing interpretative debates: first, Aristotle provides a substantive account of the unity of the composite substance (although he also briefly addresses the unity of the form); second, neither Aristotle’s conception of matter nor his account of form change…
Hans-Dieter Schwind: Nachruf auf einen großartigen Kollegen und Gründer des Kriminologischen Forschungsinstituts Niedersachsen
Article Hans-Dieter Schwind: Nachruf auf einen großartigen Kollegen und Gründer des Kriminologischen Forschungsinstituts Niedersachsen was published on May 16, 2025 in the journal Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform (volume 0, issue 0)
Political science (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Criminal Law and Policy (3 works)