Biography
Before completing his MPhil in Criminological Research at Cambridge, 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 Dr Justice Tankebe, with funding provided by Gates Cambridge Trust.
You can contact Andrzej in English, German or Polish and find him on Google Scholar 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: punitive sentiments in the general public; the experiences of criminal justice involvement among middle-class individuals.
Publications
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), 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), 1719-1739.
Uhl, A. (2020). Punishing white-collar offenders. Theory and function. Archiwum Kryminologii 42(2), 27-47.
