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. The conference will address gender aspects in the four areas of criminology, victimology, criminal law and the penal system. Its aim is to identify research questions and perspectives and to offer scientists working in this field an interdisciplinary platform and opportunities for networking. Four keynote speeches by Dr Ursula Schneider, Prof. Dr Anke Neuber, Prof. Dr Susanne Karstedt and Prof. Dr Monika Schröttle, as well as several panel sessions, will present and discuss current research findings in this field. The programme can be found in the invitation.

The conference will take place online on Thursday, 25 November and Friday, 26 November 2021. There is no participation fee. If you would also like to register for one of the two workshops with limited participation, please send us an email at genderandcrime@kfn.de by 15 November 2021.

Workshops (25 November, 5.30pm – 7pm)

  1. Anke Pagendarm, Dr. Safiye Tozdan
    Women as perpetrators and women with sexual interest in children – experiences from practice and science (the workshop is primarily aimed at people who work in this field)
  2. Annemarie Schaupp, Julius Bognitz
    Self-determination rights as a subject of legal training literature (the workshop is aimed particularly at lawyers who want to discuss the issue together using case studies)

Conference programme

25 November 2021 (Day 1)

10.00 Welcome
10.30 First keynote lecture with discussion – Gender aspects in criminal law and criminal procedure law (Dr Ursula Schneider)
11.30 Break
11.45 Second keynote lecture and discussion – “Between myths and science:
Gender aspects in criminology” (Prof. Dr. Susanne Karstedt)
12.45 Lunch break
13.45 First panel session – Gender aspects in criminal law and criminal procedure law
1. Prof. Dr. Liane Wörner

The advertising ban in Section 219a of the German Criminal Code (StGB)
2. Dr. Anja Schmidt
Pornography, gender and sexual self-determination
3. Dilken Çelebi
The sanctioning of psychological violence in German law
4. Prof. Dr. Elisa Hoven, Anja Rubitzsch, Barbara Wiedmer
Catcalling – A phenomenological and criminal law perspective
15.15 Break
15.30 Second panel session – Gender aspects in criminology
1. Hannah Espín Grau
Police violence and masculinities
2. Jana Trapp
From Nazi to RAF to IS female perpetrators: between stereotypical narratives of oppression and ideological acts of liberation
3. Prof. Dr. Christine Morgenstern, Johanna Nickels
‘Carceral feminism’? Feminist positions in German criminal policy
4. Fredericke Leuschner
The influence of gender on judicial decision-making in Germany
17.00 Break
17.30 Workshops
1. Anke Pagendarm, Dr. Safiye Tozdan
Women as perpetrators and women with sexual interest in children – experiences from practice and science
2. Annemarie Schaupp, Julius Bognitz
Self-determination rights as a subject of legal training literature
19.00 Evening programme with Lydia Benecke on female psychopathy
20.00 End of the event

26 November 2021 (Day 2)

09.30 Welcome and presentation of results from the catcalling survey (Laura-Romina Goede)
10.00 Third keynote speech and discussion – Gender aspects in victimology (Prof. Dr. Monika Schröttle)
11.00 Break
11.15 Third panel session – Gender aspects in victimology
1. Natalie Gehringer, Dr Gunda Wößner

Domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for practice: Initial findings from an empirical study in Baden-Württemberg
2. Dr Verena Molitor, Prof. Dr Tatiana Zimenkova, Dr Marjolein van den
Brink, Dr Christine Quinan

Between gender boundaries and gender binarity: The contribution of legislation/jurisprudence to inaccuracies, exclusions and othering in police work with the queer community, at international borders and in detention
3. Jara Streuer
What we talk about when we talk about femicide. An interdisciplinary approach
4. Prof. Dr. Dieter Hermann
When sexual and gender diversity becomes a security risk … Questions about gender-based victimisation in the Mannheim Security Survey
12.45 Lunch break
13.45 Fourth keynote speech and discussion – Gender aspects in penal science (Prof. Dr. Anke Neuber)
14.45 Break
15.00 Fourth panel session – Gender aspects in penitentiary science
1. Dr Franka Metzner, Lisa Schneider

Gender-specific sexual health promotion in closed accommodation – results of a systematic literature review on the international state of research
2. Prof. Dr Karla Verlinden, Dr Anne Kaplan
Sexualised violence experienced by young women in juvenile detention
3. Dr Thomas Barth, Wolfgang Wittmann
The LGBTQ community as a subpopulation in the prison system
4. Paulina Lutz
The needs of female juvenile prisoners
16.30 Conclusion and joint finale in the virtual space Wonder.me

Alle Infos auf einen Blick:

Online

Hinweise:

The conference took place from 25 to 26 November 2021.

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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. The conference will address gender aspects in the four areas of criminology, victimology, criminal law and the penal system. Its aim is to identify research questions and perspectives and to offer scientists working in this field an interdisciplinary platform and opportunities for networking. Four keynote speeches by Dr Ursula Schneider, Prof. Dr Anke Neuber, Prof. Dr Susanne Karstedt and Prof. Dr Monika Schröttle, as well as several panel sessions, will present and discuss current research findings in this field. The programme can be found in the invitation.

The conference will take place online on Thursday, 25 November and Friday, 26 November 2021. There is no participation fee. If you would also like to register for one of the two workshops with limited participation, please send us an email at genderandcrime@kfn.de by 15 November 2021.

Workshops (25 November, 5.30pm – 7pm)

  1. Anke Pagendarm, Dr. Safiye Tozdan
    Women as perpetrators and women with sexual interest in children – experiences from practice and science (the workshop is primarily aimed at people who work in this field)
  2. Annemarie Schaupp, Julius Bognitz
    Self-determination rights as a subject of legal training literature (the workshop is aimed particularly at lawyers who want to discuss the issue together using case studies)

Conference programme

25 November 2021 (Day 1)

10.00 Welcome
10.30 First keynote lecture with discussion – Gender aspects in criminal law and criminal procedure law (Dr Ursula Schneider)
11.30 Break
11.45 Second keynote lecture and discussion – “Between myths and science:
Gender aspects in criminology” (Prof. Dr. Susanne Karstedt)
12.45 Lunch break
13.45 First panel session – Gender aspects in criminal law and criminal procedure law
1. Prof. Dr. Liane Wörner

The advertising ban in Section 219a of the German Criminal Code (StGB)
2. Dr. Anja Schmidt
Pornography, gender and sexual self-determination
3. Dilken Çelebi
The sanctioning of psychological violence in German law
4. Prof. Dr. Elisa Hoven, Anja Rubitzsch, Barbara Wiedmer
Catcalling – A phenomenological and criminal law perspective
15.15 Break
15.30 Second panel session – Gender aspects in criminology
1. Hannah Espín Grau
Police violence and masculinities
2. Jana Trapp
From Nazi to RAF to IS female perpetrators: between stereotypical narratives of oppression and ideological acts of liberation
3. Prof. Dr. Christine Morgenstern, Johanna Nickels
‘Carceral feminism’? Feminist positions in German criminal policy
4. Fredericke Leuschner
The influence of gender on judicial decision-making in Germany
17.00 Break
17.30 Workshops
1. Anke Pagendarm, Dr. Safiye Tozdan
Women as perpetrators and women with sexual interest in children – experiences from practice and science
2. Annemarie Schaupp, Julius Bognitz
Self-determination rights as a subject of legal training literature
19.00 Evening programme with Lydia Benecke on female psychopathy
20.00 End of the event

26 November 2021 (Day 2)

09.30 Welcome and presentation of results from the catcalling survey (Laura-Romina Goede)
10.00 Third keynote speech and discussion – Gender aspects in victimology (Prof. Dr. Monika Schröttle)
11.00 Break
11.15 Third panel session – Gender aspects in victimology
1. Natalie Gehringer, Dr Gunda Wößner

Domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for practice: Initial findings from an empirical study in Baden-Württemberg
2. Dr Verena Molitor, Prof. Dr Tatiana Zimenkova, Dr Marjolein van den
Brink, Dr Christine Quinan

Between gender boundaries and gender binarity: The contribution of legislation/jurisprudence to inaccuracies, exclusions and othering in police work with the queer community, at international borders and in detention
3. Jara Streuer
What we talk about when we talk about femicide. An interdisciplinary approach
4. Prof. Dr. Dieter Hermann
When sexual and gender diversity becomes a security risk … Questions about gender-based victimisation in the Mannheim Security Survey
12.45 Lunch break
13.45 Fourth keynote speech and discussion – Gender aspects in penal science (Prof. Dr. Anke Neuber)
14.45 Break
15.00 Fourth panel session – Gender aspects in penitentiary science
1. Dr Franka Metzner, Lisa Schneider

Gender-specific sexual health promotion in closed accommodation – results of a systematic literature review on the international state of research
2. Prof. Dr Karla Verlinden, Dr Anne Kaplan
Sexualised violence experienced by young women in juvenile detention
3. Dr Thomas Barth, Wolfgang Wittmann
The LGBTQ community as a subpopulation in the prison system
4. Paulina Lutz
The needs of female juvenile prisoners
16.30 Conclusion and joint finale in the virtual space Wonder.me

All information at a glance:

Online

Notes:

The conference took place from 25 to 26 November 2021.

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