About the Series
What is the "Student Series of Criminology"?
As the name suggests the Student Series of Criminology would like to create the opportunity for young students to publish their own scientific papers in the field of criminology, in order to already form a connection with established theories and researchers in the early stages of their academic career.
The texts and their topics are jointly developed and discussed in a seminar for student research organized by the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology at the LMU Munich. Nevertheless, every author works on his or her own publication independently, which will then be published in our paper series in either German or English.
Who are the people behind the "Student Series of Criminology"?
The student papers series "Student Series of Criminology" was created in the context of a criminological seminar on "transnational economic crime", which was conducted by Dr. María Laura Böhm at the chair of Criminal Law and Criminology of Prof. Dr. Ralf Kölbel and targeted towards young law students and interested students from other different courses and disciplines. The seminar first took off in the winter term of 2020/21 at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and since then continues every term.
The course offers the opportunity to students to work on a criminological cast as a team and subsequently develop ideas for scientific papers, which then can be put into practice and turned into reality.
The editorial team consists of researchers from LMU in the field of criminology and of young students who already successfully published their own papers and are aspiring a scientific criminological career themselves.
What is our goal?
Our goal can be accurately summarized with the headline: "Science with heart". On the one hand, the series is intended to provide a platform for those students who have discovered their "heart" for criminology and who want to get involved in criminological research. On the other hand, the focus of the papers and the scientific work should not only be important criminological theories and research findings, but also create the awareness that behind every criminologically relevant reality, behind every case study and behind every publication there are concrete people with individual fates. Our aim is - in addition to gaining scientific knowledge - to make this invisible visible and to point out a human concern that is often neglected in the languages of power, law and science.
