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Alexander Wollinger
Alexander Wollinger is a criminologist and lecturer in criminology at the University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration in North Rhine-Westphalia. His research focuses on crime committed by members of extended families, particularly with regard to its prevention and the public discourse surrounding it.
Critical analyses of so-called ‘clan crime’
In the current discourse field ‘clan crime’, the interpretation scheme, the terminology itself and the treatment of the phenomenon by interior departments, law enforcement and other authorities are controversial. There is an intense debate about issues ranging between overestimating and underestimating the phenomenon, between self-inflicted or ‘imported’ criminality and between zero-tolerance reactions by the constitutional state on the one hand and discrimination against entire population groups on the other.
Critical analyses of so-called ‘clan crime’
In the current discourse field ‘clan crime’, the interpretation scheme, the terminology itself and the treatment of the phenomenon by interior departments, law enforcement and other authorities are controversial. There is an intense debate about issues ranging between overestimating and underestimating the phenomenon, between self-inflicted or ‘imported’ criminality and between zero-tolerance reactions by the constitutional state on the one hand and discrimination against entire population groups on the other.