Biography
Before completing his MPhil in Criminological Research at Cambridge University, Andrzej studied in Cracow and Heidelberg and worked in Berlin as a compliance & investigations consultant at an international audit firm. His prior research on white-collar crime and corruption has been published by the European Journal of Criminology and Crime Law and Social Change.
Andrzej’s current project is supervised by Dr Kyle Treiber and Professor Justice Tankebe, with funding provided by Gates Cambridge Trust.
You can contact Andrzej in English, German or Polish and find him on Google Scholar, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
Research
When given an opportunity of unfair enrichment, do different people react differently to varying sums offered, punishment risks and moral climates? And does this difference lay in their personal morality, self-control capacity or something else? Founded in Situational Action Theory, Andrzej’s planned research will use experimental methods derived from behavioural economics to study the interplay of incentives, norms and controls in corrupt decision-making.
Alongside his main project, Andrzej is also passionate about (and open to collaboration on) several further topics: offender decision-making, sentencing inconsistencies, punitive sentiments in the general public, and the experiences of criminal justice involvement among middle-class individuals.
Publications
- Uhl. A., Marks, M., & Ostaszewski, P. (2025). The authoritarian personality model of punitiveness is inconsistent in predicting punishment preferences: a sentencing vignette study in a representative sample from six countries. Political Psychology (forthcoming)
- Uhl, A. (2025). The Damocles effect: Judges may inflate the duration of suspended prison terms by over 50%. Journal of Experimental Criminology (forthcoming).
- Uhl, A., Herrmann, C., & Treiber, K. H. (2025). Corruption: A situational action view. Theory and Society.
- Uhl, A., & Pickett, J. T. (2024). The (in)stability of punishment preferences: Implications for empirical desert. The British Journal of Criminology.
- Ostaszewski, P., Uhl, A., Woźniakowska, D., & Witkowska-Rozpara, K. (2024). Punitiveness of society and criminal policy in six Central European countries. European Journal of Criminology, 21(6), p.929-956
- Uhl, A. (2023). Carceral experiences of white-collar offenders: Qualitative research design utilising the offender-based definition and Pierre Bourdieu’s capital theory. Crime Law and Social Change, 79(2),p.129-151.
- Fürstenberg, A., Starystach, S.,& Uhl, A. (2023). Culture and corruption. An experimental comparison of cultural patterns on the corruption propensity in Poland and Russia. European Journal of Criminology, 20(5), p.1719-1739.
