Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to the third edition of the Gender & Crime conference – held in person for the first time in 2024! After two successful online conferences, where the great response and intense debates highlighted the interest in gender-specific aspects in criminology and criminal law, this year’s conference will take place as an in-person event at Georg August University in Göttingen. In its first year, the conference dealt generally with gender aspects in criminal law, criminology, victimology and penology. In 2022, the focus was on the topics of sexual self-determination and gender-specific violence. The 2024 conference will focus on the structures of gender-specific violence and its causes and circumstances. The symposium will be held in person in Göttingen on Thursday, 25 April and Friday, 26 April 2024. In addition to a keynote speech and a panel discussion, various panel sessions and a poster session will present and discuss current topics and research findings, as well as offering networking opportunities for researchers working in this field.
Due to limited space in the premises, we kindly ask you to register by 2 April 2024. Thanks to financial support, we are able to waive the conference fee. However, there is a small catering fee of €20 for the provision of meals. A reduced fee of €15 will be charged for students and trainee solicitors. If this fee represents a significant challenge for you and you are unable to pay it for financial reasons, please contact us. We will endeavour to find individual solutions.
The organising team looks forward to your participation!
Dilken Çelebi, Yvonne Krieg, Paulina Lutz, Helena Schüttler, Leonie Steinl, Jara Streuer, Maja Werner & Tillmann Bartsch
Conference programme
25 April 2024 (Day 1)
| 12.00 | Arrival |
| 12.30 | Welcome |
| 12.45 | First keynote lecture with discussion: The state as a gender-specific power relationship. Intersectional perspectives – Birgit Sauer |
| 13.45 | Break |
| 14.00 | Panel Session 1 – International Perspectives 1. Leah Fox, Svitlana Filyppova Suffering in hope for the future: the status of vulnerable women and children in Ukraine and determining post-conflict solutions to support their reintegration and resocialisation 2. Anne-Kathrin Kreft Sexual violence in armed conflicts: war strategy and structural gender inequalities 3. Amira Paripurna Pathways to radicalisation and women’s role in terrorism 4. Viviana Andreescu Inclusion, security, and justice: exploring the correlates of femicides in the United States 5. Purbash Nayak, Suddhasil Siddhanta The disliked daughter – a theoretical study of societies with missing females |
| 16.00 | Break |
| 16.30 | Panel discussion with Delal Atmaca, Teresa Quadt, Alexander Schwarz, Katrin Werner-Kappler |
| 18.30 | End of the event |
| 20.00 | Joint dinner |
26 April 2024 (Day 2)
| 09.00 | Panel Session 2 – Domestic Violence 1. Stefanie Horn, Catharina Vogt, Thomas Görgen Leaking behaviour as a basis for preventing lethal domestic violence in separation conflicts: Results of a file-based study 2. Vanessa Uttenweiler, Kim Zibulski Police risk analysis, risk management and interdisciplinary cooperation in cases of (former) intimate partner violence 3. Laya Alizad The working methods of the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office in cases of intimate partner violence against women 4. Natalie Köpsel, Catharina Vogt, Joachim Kersten Building bridges between victims of domestic violence and the professional support system |
| 10.30 | Break |
| 10.45 | Poster-Session |
| 11.45 | Break |
| 12.00 | Panel Session 3 – Prison System 1. Ulrike Häßler, Sabine Zeymer, Isabel Wittland Female prisoners in Lower Saxony – basic documentation, needs and special features 2. Selin Arikoglu ‘And then I became a criminal’: Biographical case reconstruction of young female offenders with a migrant background 3. Doreen Muhl, Anika Gomille Allegations of sexualised violence and rejection practices in the prison system |
| 13.00 | Conclusion of the event |
The proceedings of the third Gender & Crime Conference in 2024 were published by Nomos Verlag in January 2025 and are freely accessible: Link
