Professor Friedrich Lösel - Biography

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Biography

Professor Friedrich Lösel, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, where he was director of the Institute of Psychology and the Social Sciences Research Centre until 2005. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Formerly, he was professor of psychology at the Universities of Bielefeld and Erlangen, a university senior lecturer at Bamberg University and a lecturer at Erlangen University. He was also a project director at the Advanced Research Centres "Prevention and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence" and "Socialization and Communication" of the German Research Council.

He has carried out research on juvenile delinquency, prisons, offender treatment, football hooliganism, school bullying, personality disordered offenders, resilience, close relationships, child abuse, and family education and evaluation methodology. He has published approximately 300 journal articles and book chapters and is the author or editor of 18 books, with topics including: Self-Control and Juvenile Delinquency, Psychological Training for Prison Officers, Psychology of Crime, Social Intervention, Meta-Evaluation of Therapeutic Prisons, Children at Risk, Criminal Behaviour and the Justice System, Health Hazards in Adolescence, Origins, Prevention and Control of Violence, Psychology and Law, Residential Youth Care as an Alternative to Remand Prisons, Football Hooliganism, Treatment of Dangerous Offenders, Aggression and Delinquency in Adolescence, Assessment and Evaluation of Family Education Programmes in Germany, and Criminology and Evidence-Based Crime Policy. One of his current research projects is the ‘Erlangen-Nuremberg Development and Prevention Study’, a combined longitudinal and experimental study of over 600 children and their families that started at preschool age and has now been running for 10 years. Another project on ‘Risk and Protective Factors during Resettlement of Imprisoned Fathers with their Families’ is carried out in collaboration with the Ormiston Children and Family Trust. Smaller projects address the implementation of developmental prevention and offender treatment programmes.

Professor Friedrich Lösel has been President of the European Association of Psychology and Law, President of the Criminological Society of the German-speaking Countries, member of the Commission on Violence of the German Federal Government, member of the Executive Committee and chairman of the Psychology and Law Division of the German Psychological Association; visiting fellow of the British Psychological Society, division secretary of the International Association of Applied Psychology. He has been a member of the scientific advisory boards of the German Criminological Centre, the Netherlands Institute for Criminality and Law Enforcement, and the Max-Planck/Minerva Centre for Youth Problems at the University of Haifa (Israel), and Faculty Dean at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, board member of the family survey of the German Government, reporter on crime problems to the Council of Europe, chairman of the Family Research Award Committee of the German Ministry for Family Affairs, chairman of the accreditation committee for programmes in psychology and law, member of the Correctional Programmes Accreditation Panel of the Auditor General in Canada, member of the Effective Interventions Board of the UK Ministry of Justice, and vice-chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Currently, he is chairman of the Board of the Criminological Research Centre of Lower Saxony, member and past-chair of the Correctional Services Programme Accreditation Panel in England & Wales, member of the Steering Committee of the Campbell Crime & Justice Group, Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre of Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University (U.S.), and vice-president of the German Criminological Society. He also serves on the editorial boards of various international journals.

In recognition of his scientific work, he has received various honours including the Award for Lifetime Achievement of the European Association of Psychology and Law, the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology, an honorary Doctor of Science from Glasgow Caledonian University, the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and the German Psychology Prize. He was also elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.