Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law

Main Research:

Alke Glet is currently working towards developing her doctoral thesis on the social construction and prosecution of hate crime in Germany. The study is going to explore the procedures involved in the identification, classification, prosecution and statistical documentation of hate-motivated offences and the conflicts and problems involved in the issue of defining such crimes. Besides the topic of her doctoral thesis, her research interest is also directed towards the development of the surveillance state and the increased diffusion of CCTV cameras in public places. She is especially concerned with extent of camera surveillance in Great Britain and Germany and the effectiveness of such technological measures as a means of crime prevention.

Academic Background:

Alke Glet was born in 1980 in Preetz / Northern Germany. After finishing secondary school in 2001, she went on to study criminology with psychology at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, England. She continued her studies at the University of Sheffield, majoring in international criminology. In 2005, she finished university by completing her master-thesis on camera surveillance (‘A comparative outlook on public space camera surveillance in Great Britain and Germany’). Afterwards she took up the opportunity to gain work experiences in various research areas of criminology.She was temporarily working with the victim support service of the department of legal medicine in Hamburg where she was contributing to a study investigating recurring episodes of intimate partner violence. Later she went on to do a two-month placement at the research institute of security and crime prevention Hamburg (ISIP). Next to English translation duties and other supporting tasks, she was involved in a research project looking at the role of people with migrant backgrounds in the German police force (MORS). During a four-week working placement at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg i.Br. in August 2007, she supported the department of criminology with the development of its expertise on the so-called ‘Incest-case’ for the Federal Constitutional Court. Alke Glet has been employed by the MPI since November 2007 and is currently working on her doctoral thesis about the social construction and prosecution of hate crimes in Germany.

Publications (selection):

• Glet, Alke: The German Hate Crime Concept. An account of the classification and registration of bias-motivated offences and the implementation of the hate crime model into Germany’s law enforcement system. In: The Internet Journal of Criminology, 2009. URL: http://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/Glet_German_Hate_Crime_Concept_Nov_09.pdf .
• Seifert, D., Heinemann, A., Anders, S., Schöer, J., Sperhake, Glet, A., Püschel, K.: A forensic medicine perspective on recurring episodes of intimate partner violence. In: Archiv für Kriminologie, 2007, Issue⁄Volume 219, p. 23 - 32.

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