Dipl.-Psych. Jana Rauschenbach, M.A.
Researcher
Main Research:
- Imprisonment and re-socialization
- Social therapy and offender treatment
- Sexual offenses
Academic Background:
From 2000 to 2006, Jana Rauschenbach studied undergraduate psychology (with an emphasis on forensic psychology) at the universities of Dresden, Bremen and Leipzig. During this period she completed internships at an involuntary treatment facility in Schkeuditz and at a child protection centre in Leipzig. Her undergraduate diploma thesis was entitled ‘Personality and Internet Sexuality: An empirical study of men in the second half of life’ (supervised by PD Dr. Kurt Seikowski). After graduation she mastered in international criminology at the University of Hamburg between 2006 and 2008. Her master’s thesis was inspired by an internship at the homicide division of the Hamburg Crime Investigation Authority (LKA) and was entitled ‘The Rhythm of Murder: an empirical study on the likelihood of homicide in Hamburg’ (supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Wetzels). The thesis was conducted in cooperation with the Hamburg LKA.
Upon graduating from the University of Hamburg, Jana Rauschenbach worked for some time in the field of family support and assistance. From 2011 onwards she has been employed as a researcher in the evaluative project Sexual Offenders in the Social Therapeutic Institutions of the Free State of Saxony at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. She is responsible for data collection in the prisons and social therapeutic institutions involved in the study, as well as data collection from the offenders after they have been released.
Publications (selection):
- Wößner, Gunda / Wienhausen-Knezevic, Elke / Rauschenbach, Jana: Sozialtherapie im Jugendstrafvollzug – und dann? In: Jehle, Jörg-Martin u.a. (ed(s).): Täter – Taten – Opfer. Grundlagenfragen und aktuelle Probleme der Kriminalität und ihrer Kontrolle. Neue Kriminologische Schriftenreihe, Bd. 114 (im Erscheinen / forthcoming). Mönchengladbach, Forum Verlag Godesberg, 2012.
- Rauschenbach, Jana: Persönlichkeit und Internetsexualität: Eine empirische Studie an Männern in ihrer zweiten Lebenshälfte. Saarbrücken, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 204 p., 2008.