New ECOH interview: Hans-Jörg Albrecht
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ESC
07-15-2025
Hans-Jörg Albrecht is a Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg/Germany, as well as an Honorary Professor and faculty member at the Law Faculty of the University of Freiburg. He is a guest professor at the Center for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the China University of Political Science and Law and at the law faculties of Hainan University, Renmin University, Wuhan University, Beijing Normal University, and Dalian Ocean University. His interests are varied, from sentencing theory, juvenile crime and justice, recidivism, drug policies, to the role of criminal justice in transitional legal systems - topics on which he has published several works.
Hans-Jörg Albrecht was interviewed by Anna-Maria Getoš during the 2024 ESC conference in Bucharest. In this interview, Albrecht talks about the origin of his interest in Criminology, and its relation to the role of criminal law in social control. After reviewing the development of Criminology in Germany and its institutional allocation, attention is paid to his key role as Director of the Max Planck Institute as mentor of many criminologists from different European countries and the resulting internationalisation of Criminology. The interview concludes with a review of his current research and his publications to come.