Dietrich Oberwittler
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3597017 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dietrich Oberwittler |
| PRENOMES | Dietrich |
| SOBRENOME | Oberwittler |
| ASSINATURA | OBERWITTLER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2235-3483 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Handbook on Cities and Crime
Exploring Heterogeneous Effects of Victimization on Changes in Fear of Crime
A growing research body shows that victimization increases victims’ fear of crime. Typically, this research estimates average effects, which may conceal that people respond differently to victimization or that ecological contexts shape the experience of crime. The current study is among the few that attempt to uncover potential heterogeneities in victimization effects by ecological contexts. It explores whether the victims’ neighborhood condition…
The International Youth Crime Drop
The unequal spread of digital neighbourhood platforms in urban neighbourhoods
Digital neighbourhood platforms (DNPs) – also called online neighbourhood networks or neighbourhood social networks – are still a relatively novel phenomenon, and little is known about their actual reach among citizens and about neighbourhood conditions which foster or impede their spread. We consider DNPs as a digital extension of conventional neighbourhood social capital and analyse their spread in comparison with the latter using a recent comm…
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety
Scholars from various fields have suggested that criminal victimization can shatter generalized trust. Whereas small average effects in longitudinal studies provide only weak support for this claim, victimization effects may be stronger for specific crime types and multiple victimization. To test this assumption, we estimated various victimization effects by combining Energy weighting with lagged dependent variable models, using data from two-wav…
In Their Own Hands
Strong and viable modern states have limited the use of private force to narrowly-defined situations of self-defense. Yet, evidence from crime surveys shows that a significant proportion of violent and property crimes is not reported to police. Instead of calling the police, people either take no action or employ a variety of mechanisms, including retaliation, to settle disputes. Drawing on data from a survey of 2,921 young people in two German c…
How institutional contexts shape police-adolescent encounters. A study of France and Germany
In a French-German study including a large survey of adolescents in four cities, we analyze the interaction patterns during stops. Based on the respondents’ reports of their last experience of a police stop/encounter, we look at the likelihood that they assessed the interaction as respectful or disrespectful, conflictual or even violent, and how either the police officers’ or their own behaviour contributed to this outcome. The comparative design…
Old age and fear of crime
Fear of crime among older people has been a frequent topic in ageing research, criminology and urban studies. The ‘environmental docility hypothesis’ assumes that older people are more vulnerable to adverse neighbourhood conditions than younger age groups. Yet, few studies have tested this influential hypothesis using samples of respondents covering the complete adult lifespan. Looking at fear of crime, we investigated the person–environment inte…
Unterwegs in Kriminologie und Strafrecht – Exploring the World of Crime and Criminology
gerichtlichen Rechtsprechung (1 BvR 536/72, BVerfGE 35, 202).Erklärtes Hauptziel des Jugendstrafrechts ist die Spezialprävention; um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, sind Verfahrensgestaltung und Rechtsfolgen "vorrangig am Erziehungsgedanken auszurichten"( § 2 Abs. 1 JGG); "bedeutsamer Ausdruck und Folge" des Erziehungsgedankens ist die "Subsidiarität des Strafverfahrens" (Brunner & Dölling 2017, 42): Vorrang haben sollen informelle Erledigungsformen (D…
Victimization and Its Consequences for Well-Being
Changing routine activities and the decline of youth crime
This study examines the declining crime trend among Swedish adolescents between 1999 and 2017 using data from eight repeated cross‐sectional waves of a nationally representative school survey ( N = ca. 49,000). We examined to what extent changes in parental monitoring, school bonds, attitudes toward crime, routine activities, and binge drinking were related to the noticeable decline in youth crime. Multilevel modeling was employed for the analysi…
How older people became less afraid of crime-An age-period-cohort analysis using repeated cross-sectional survey data
Collective Efficacy in Australian and German Neighborhoods
In neighborhood research, the concept of collective efficacy has been particularly successful in capturing social cohesion and behavioral expectations among residents. Research has spread beyond the U.S. where it originated, and many studies from different countries have shown that collective efficacy is related to structural disadvantage in similar ways and affects outcomes as crime, education or health. However, methodological issues about meas…
Police–Citizen Relations Across the World
International audience
Police-Citizen Relations Across the World
Different styles of policing
By analysing French and German police stop and search on the streets based on embedded observations in police patrols and findings of a large school survey, this article comparatively questions their determinants. Control practices diverge in their frequency: the German police officers control less proactively than their French counterparts. The targets of controls also differ: a concentration on visible minorities is much more pervasive among th…
Les logiques professionnelles et politiques du contrôle
À partir d'une combinaison d'observations directes, entretiens et questionnaire auprès du public, cet article propose de comparer les décisions de contrôle des policiers français et allemands, en rapportant ces pratiques à des styles d'action policière. Si les objectifs sont similaires (lutte contre la criminalité, affirmation de l'autorité, collecte d'information), les modalités diffèrent. Les policiers français contrôlent plus souvent que leurs…
Felson’s Review of “Breaking Rules”
A fundamental element of scientific progress is learning from constructive criticism. We are very much interested in substantive critiques and discussions of our work. Unfortunately, this is not wh
Städtische Armutsquartiere - Kriminelle Lebenswelten?
Strategien der Bearbeitung sozialer Marginalität
Soziale Welt is one of the important journals within German sociology and is even read in foreign countries. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from all areas of the subject and tries to portray the development of sociology and to give a new impetus. In addition to the quarterly published issues, there are special issues with a unified theme. The journal "Soziale Welt" is aimed at sociologists, social scientists, and at generally…
Social Insecurities and Fear of Crime
This article assesses the association between national welfare state regimes and public insecurities about crime across Europe. A multilevel analysis of respondents in 23 countries sampled in the 2004/05 European Social Survey finds a strong relationship between insecurities about crime and national levels of social expenditure and decommodification of social welfare policy. Some social protection measures are more strongly associated with nation…
It's not the time they spend, it's what they do
Comparing spatial patterns of robbery
The Effects of Neighbourhood Poverty on Adolescent Problem Behaviours
This paper investigates how adolescents react to living in urban areas of concentrated poverty, and whether contextual effects on psychological strain and delinquent behaviour exist, using a cross-sectional youth survey in 61 neighbourhoods in two German cities and a rural area (n = ca. 5300). Multi-level analysis is applied to estimate neighbourhood effects controlling for individual socio-demographic composition. Results suggest that neighbourh…
Stadtstruktur, Freundeskreise und Delinquenz
The Effects of Neighbourhood Poverty on Adolescent Problem Behaviours
This paper investigates how adolescents react to living in urban areas of concentrated poverty, and whether contextual effects on psychological strain and delinquent behaviour exist, using a cross-sectional youth survey in 61 neighbourhoods in two German cities and a rural area (n = ca. 5300). Multi-level analysis is applied to estimate neighbourhood effects controlling for individual socio-demographic composition. Results suggest that neighbourh…
It's not the time they spend, it's what they do
Social Insecurities and Fear of Crime
This article assesses the association between national welfare state regimes and public insecurities about crime across Europe. A multilevel analysis of respondents in 23 countries sampled in the 2004/05 European Social Survey finds a strong relationship between insecurities about crime and national levels of social expenditure and decommodification of social welfare policy. Some social protection measures are more strongly associated with nation…
Police–Citizen Relations Across the World
International audience
Changing routine activities and the decline of youth crime
This study examines the declining crime trend among Swedish adolescents between 1999 and 2017 using data from eight repeated cross‐sectional waves of a nationally representative school survey ( N = ca. 49,000). We examined to what extent changes in parental monitoring, school bonds, attitudes toward crime, routine activities, and binge drinking were related to the noticeable decline in youth crime. Multilevel modeling was employed for the analysi…
Collective Efficacy in Australian and German Neighborhoods
In neighborhood research, the concept of collective efficacy has been particularly successful in capturing social cohesion and behavioral expectations among residents. Research has spread beyond the U.S. where it originated, and many studies from different countries have shown that collective efficacy is related to structural disadvantage in similar ways and affects outcomes as crime, education or health. However, methodological issues about meas…
Comparing spatial patterns of robbery
Different styles of policing
By analysing French and German police stop and search on the streets based on embedded observations in police patrols and findings of a large school survey, this article comparatively questions their determinants. Control practices diverge in their frequency: the German police officers control less proactively than their French counterparts. The targets of controls also differ: a concentration on visible minorities is much more pervasive among th…
Les logiques professionnelles et politiques du contrôle
À partir d'une combinaison d'observations directes, entretiens et questionnaire auprès du public, cet article propose de comparer les décisions de contrôle des policiers français et allemands, en rapportant ces pratiques à des styles d'action policière. Si les objectifs sont similaires (lutte contre la criminalité, affirmation de l'autorité, collecte d'information), les modalités diffèrent. Les policiers français contrôlent plus souvent que leurs…
Wie ehrlich berichten männliche Jugendliche über ihr delinquentes Verhalten
The International Youth Crime Drop
How older people became less afraid of crime-An age-period-cohort analysis using repeated cross-sectional survey data
Strategien der Bearbeitung sozialer Marginalität
Soziale Welt is one of the important journals within German sociology and is even read in foreign countries. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from all areas of the subject and tries to portray the development of sociology and to give a new impetus. In addition to the quarterly published issues, there are special issues with a unified theme. The journal "Soziale Welt" is aimed at sociologists, social scientists, and at generally…
The unequal spread of digital neighbourhood platforms in urban neighbourhoods
Digital neighbourhood platforms (DNPs) – also called online neighbourhood networks or neighbourhood social networks – are still a relatively novel phenomenon, and little is known about their actual reach among citizens and about neighbourhood conditions which foster or impede their spread. We consider DNPs as a digital extension of conventional neighbourhood social capital and analyse their spread in comparison with the latter using a recent comm…
How institutional contexts shape police-adolescent encounters. A study of France and Germany
In a French-German study including a large survey of adolescents in four cities, we analyze the interaction patterns during stops. Based on the respondents’ reports of their last experience of a police stop/encounter, we look at the likelihood that they assessed the interaction as respectful or disrespectful, conflictual or even violent, and how either the police officers’ or their own behaviour contributed to this outcome. The comparative design…
From Coding to Decoding
Geschlecht, Ethnizität und sozialräumliche Benachteiligung
Dieser Beitrag stellt einen Versuch dar, mehrere, üblicherweise getrennte, Perspektiven auf soziale Einflussfaktoren auf Jugenddelinquenz zusammen zu führen: Zusätzlich zur Geschlechterperspektive soll auch die ethnische Dimension thematisiert werden und beide Perspektiven sollen mit einem besonderen Fokus auf die Lebensbedingungen in Wohnquartieren mit hohen Konzentrationen sozialer Benachteiligungen verbunden werden. Was spricht fir die Verquic…
Stadtstruktur, Freundeskreise und Delinquenz
Soziologie der Kriminalität
Mit Beitragen von Henner Hess, Sebastian Scheerer, David Garland, Steve Messner, John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, Oliver Morgenroth, Klaus Boehnke, Lydia Seus, Gerald Prein, Shadd Maruna, Stephen Farrall, John Braithwaite, Eva Schmitt-Rodermund, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Dirk Enzmann, Karin Brettfeld, Peter Wetzels, Alexander Vazsonyi, Christian Seipel, Stefanie Eifler, Willem de Haan, Letizia Paoli, Klaus Boers, Hans Theile, Kari-Maria Karliczek, Tim Hop…
Wie ehrlich berichten männliche Jugendliche über ihr delinquentes Verhalten
The Effects of Neighbourhood Poverty on Adolescent Problem Behaviours
This paper investigates how adolescents react to living in urban areas of concentrated poverty, and whether contextual effects on psychological strain and delinquent behaviour exist, using a cross-sectional youth survey in 61 neighbourhoods in two German cities and a rural area (n = ca. 5300). Multi-level analysis is applied to estimate neighbourhood effects controlling for individual socio-demographic composition. Results suggest that neighbourh…
Comparing spatial patterns of robbery
It's not the time they spend, it's what they do
Social Insecurities and Fear of Crime
This article assesses the association between national welfare state regimes and public insecurities about crime across Europe. A multilevel analysis of respondents in 23 countries sampled in the 2004/05 European Social Survey finds a strong relationship between insecurities about crime and national levels of social expenditure and decommodification of social welfare policy. Some social protection measures are more strongly associated with nation…
Strategien der Bearbeitung sozialer Marginalität
Soziale Welt is one of the important journals within German sociology and is even read in foreign countries. It includes empirical and theoretical contributions from all areas of the subject and tries to portray the development of sociology and to give a new impetus. In addition to the quarterly published issues, there are special issues with a unified theme. The journal "Soziale Welt" is aimed at sociologists, social scientists, and at generally…
Städtische Armutsquartiere - Kriminelle Lebenswelten?
Felson’s Review of “Breaking Rules”
A fundamental element of scientific progress is learning from constructive criticism. We are very much interested in substantive critiques and discussions of our work. Unfortunately, this is not wh
Different styles of policing
By analysing French and German police stop and search on the streets based on embedded observations in police patrols and findings of a large school survey, this article comparatively questions their determinants. Control practices diverge in their frequency: the German police officers control less proactively than their French counterparts. The targets of controls also differ: a concentration on visible minorities is much more pervasive among th…
Les logiques professionnelles et politiques du contrôle
À partir d'une combinaison d'observations directes, entretiens et questionnaire auprès du public, cet article propose de comparer les décisions de contrôle des policiers français et allemands, en rapportant ces pratiques à des styles d'action policière. Si les objectifs sont similaires (lutte contre la criminalité, affirmation de l'autorité, collecte d'information), les modalités diffèrent. Les policiers français contrôlent plus souvent que leurs…
Police–Citizen Relations Across the World
International audience
Police-Citizen Relations Across the World
How older people became less afraid of crime-An age-period-cohort analysis using repeated cross-sectional survey data
Collective Efficacy in Australian and German Neighborhoods
In neighborhood research, the concept of collective efficacy has been particularly successful in capturing social cohesion and behavioral expectations among residents. Research has spread beyond the U.S. where it originated, and many studies from different countries have shown that collective efficacy is related to structural disadvantage in similar ways and affects outcomes as crime, education or health. However, methodological issues about meas…
Unterwegs in Kriminologie und Strafrecht – Exploring the World of Crime and Criminology
gerichtlichen Rechtsprechung (1 BvR 536/72, BVerfGE 35, 202).Erklärtes Hauptziel des Jugendstrafrechts ist die Spezialprävention; um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, sind Verfahrensgestaltung und Rechtsfolgen "vorrangig am Erziehungsgedanken auszurichten"( § 2 Abs. 1 JGG); "bedeutsamer Ausdruck und Folge" des Erziehungsgedankens ist die "Subsidiarität des Strafverfahrens" (Brunner & Dölling 2017, 42): Vorrang haben sollen informelle Erledigungsformen (D…
Victimization and Its Consequences for Well-Being
Changing routine activities and the decline of youth crime
This study examines the declining crime trend among Swedish adolescents between 1999 and 2017 using data from eight repeated cross‐sectional waves of a nationally representative school survey ( N = ca. 49,000). We examined to what extent changes in parental monitoring, school bonds, attitudes toward crime, routine activities, and binge drinking were related to the noticeable decline in youth crime. Multilevel modeling was employed for the analysi…
How institutional contexts shape police-adolescent encounters. A study of France and Germany
In a French-German study including a large survey of adolescents in four cities, we analyze the interaction patterns during stops. Based on the respondents’ reports of their last experience of a police stop/encounter, we look at the likelihood that they assessed the interaction as respectful or disrespectful, conflictual or even violent, and how either the police officers’ or their own behaviour contributed to this outcome. The comparative design…
Old age and fear of crime
Fear of crime among older people has been a frequent topic in ageing research, criminology and urban studies. The ‘environmental docility hypothesis’ assumes that older people are more vulnerable to adverse neighbourhood conditions than younger age groups. Yet, few studies have tested this influential hypothesis using samples of respondents covering the complete adult lifespan. Looking at fear of crime, we investigated the person–environment inte…
In Their Own Hands
Strong and viable modern states have limited the use of private force to narrowly-defined situations of self-defense. Yet, evidence from crime surveys shows that a significant proportion of violent and property crimes is not reported to police. Instead of calling the police, people either take no action or employ a variety of mechanisms, including retaliation, to settle disputes. Drawing on data from a survey of 2,921 young people in two German c…
The unequal spread of digital neighbourhood platforms in urban neighbourhoods
Digital neighbourhood platforms (DNPs) – also called online neighbourhood networks or neighbourhood social networks – are still a relatively novel phenomenon, and little is known about their actual reach among citizens and about neighbourhood conditions which foster or impede their spread. We consider DNPs as a digital extension of conventional neighbourhood social capital and analyse their spread in comparison with the latter using a recent comm…
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