Events
Insights, exchange, perspectives
Upcoming Events
Our upcoming events offer an opportunity to learn about current developments in research and practice, make new contacts, and actively participate in discussions. We cordially invite you to register and become part of the exchange!
Criminological Colloquium
Victimization can have profound and lasting consequences, yet its impacts are far from uniform. This talk synthesizes research on the…
Learn more12. May 2026, 18:00 – 19:30 Uhr
Regular Events
- The Criminological Colloquium: For several years, the KFN has been organizing a Criminological Colloquium on a monthly basis—typically on the first Tuesday of each month—in which renowned scholars present their current research in a practice-oriented manner. In its hybrid format, the event series has established itself as a scientific forum with nationwide reach: once a month, interested researchers and practitioners are invited to gather at the KFN (both digitally and in person) to discuss current issues in criminology and criminal law.
- The Gender & Crime Conference is an academic specialist conference that focuses on the relationship between gender, crime, and criminal law. Its varying thematic emphases are explored through lectures, panels, and discussions, serving both professional exchange and the contextualization of current societal developments. Every two years, the KFN organizes the conference in cooperation with the German Women Lawyers Association and the Institute of Criminal Sciences at the University of Göttingen.
- The KFN-MethodLab Autumn/Winter Conference is an academic conference with a focus on methodology, aimed primarily at researchers engaged in empirical work. The conference centres on methods and statistical procedures used in criminological research. The aim of the conference is to promote discussion on standards, innovations and the limits of methodological research, and to present new developments in empirical criminology.
- The KFN MethodLab workshop series on methodology and statistics is a training programme aimed at both KFN staff and empirical researchers from other institutions. The aim of the series is to address current methodological needs within the organisation, as well as to present and explore developments in data collection and analysis.
- Science November is a kind of ‘science open day’ held across Hanover, during which a wide range of hands-on activities and discussion sessions are offered every two years over a period of several weeks. The KFN is delighted to take part by presenting and discussing current research projects of particular social relevance.
Gender & Crime – Gender in the context of social polarisation
We cordially invite you to the fourth edition of the Gender & Crime conference, which will take place on Thursday, 12 and Friday,…
Learn more12. March, 10.00 am – 13. March 2026, 1.45 pm
Criminological Colloquium
The term “ritual sexual violence” is used to describe forms of organized sexual abuse characterized by extreme violence, unknown networks…
Learn more03. March 2026, 18:00 – 19:30 Uhr
Criminological Colloquium
Selectivity appears to be the operating principle of social control that forms and maintains society. Both formal and informal social…
Learn more03. February 2026, 17:00 – 18:30 Uhr
KFN MethodLab Autumn/Winter Conference
Criminology faces the task of precisely describing causal relationships between individual, social and institutional factors. Whether in the evaluation of…
Learn more08. Dec., 1.40 pm – 09. Dec. 2025, 12.50 pm
Science November at KFN
This year, we are once again offering insights into our research projects as part of Science November. Participation in the…
Learn more13. November 2025, 17:30 – 19:45 Uhr
Criminological Colloquium
The use of AI-supported tools has been the subject of lively debate in qualitative social research for some time now…
Learn more04. November 2025, 18:00 – 19:30 Uhr
Criminological Colloquium
Avoiding substitute imprisonment (EFS) is an issue that concerns the judiciary nationwide. Despite a wide range of preventive measures, people…
Learn more07. October 2025, 18:00 – 19:30 Uhr
Conference on the evaluation of the Prostitute Protection Act
The Institute for Criminal Sciences at Georg August University in Göttingen and the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony cordially…
Learn more01. September 2025, 10:00 – 18:00 Uhr
Criminological Colloquium
While for the majority of the population, lotteries, sports betting, slot machines and online casinos are associated with fun, excitement…
Learn more03. June 2025, 18:00 – 19:30 Uhr
Introduction to longitudinal analysis with structural equation models
The Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), in cooperation with GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, invites…
Learn more19. March, 9.00 am – 20. March 2025, 4.30 pm
Gender & Crime – Structural causes and circumstances of gender-based violence
Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to the third edition of the Gender & Crime conference – held in person…
Learn more25. April, 12.00 pm – 26. April 2024, 1.00 pm
Introduction and advanced study of R with insights into the confreq and lavaan packages
We cordially invite you to the first edition of the training series on methods and statistics. The workshop, entitled ‘Introduction…
Learn more19. Feb., 9.00 am – 20. Feb. 2024, 5.00 pm
Gender & Crime – Sexual self-determination and gender-based violence
We cordially invite you to the second edition of our online conference on Gender & Crime – Sexual Self-Determination and…
Learn more24. Nov., 10.00 am – 25. Nov. 2022 3.00 pm
Scientific symposium of the Criminological Society – KrimG2022
Main theme: ‘Crime and digitalisation – digitalisation and crime’ Digitalisation permeates almost all areas of our lives and offers us many…
Learn more08. Sep., 1.30 pm, – 10. Sep. 2022, 1.00 pm
Gender & Crime – Gender aspects in criminology and criminal law studies
We cordially invite you to our online conference on Gender & Crime – Gender Aspects in Criminology and Criminal Law….
Learn more25. Nov., 10.00 am – 26. Nov. 2021 4.30 pm