Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law

Main Research:

As head of the research projects Sexual Offenders in the Social Therapeutic Institutions of the Free State of Saxony and Juvenile Sexual Offenders in the Correctional Treatment Facilities of the Free State of Saxony, Gunda Wößner is primarily engaged with the evaluation of social-therapeutic treatment for dangerous offenders and the analysis of relevant relapse criteria. Another research focus includes the evaluation of electronic monitoring in the correctional facilities of Baden-Württemberg. Her research interests include:

• sexual and violent offending
• offender treatment
• prognosis and reoffending
• electronic monitoring
• developmental tasks and developmental disorders (juvenile delinquency)
• victimology.

Academic Background:

Upon completing her secondary studies, Gunda Wößner studied psychology at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg i. Br. from 1991 through to 1998. From 1994 to 1997, she worked as a student assistant for the Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. After graduating in 1998, she interned at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington, Washington, D.C., where she focused on diagnostics and interventions among juvenile victims of sexual abuse and juvenile sexual offenders. In 2000, Gunda Wößner briefly took up employment at the Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene (IGPP) in Freiburg to organize the 43rd convention of the Parapsychological Association. In 2001, she began work on her doctoral thesis at the Max Planck Institute, developing a sexual offender typology. In 2005, with the help of a re-entry bursary from the Vice-Chancellor and the Women’s Office of the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, she was able to complete her doctoral thesis. In the spring of 2005, Gunda Wößner took up employment at the Westfälische Wilhelms University in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. In August 2006, Gunda Wößner returned to the Criminology Department of the Max Planck Institute in Freiburg. In addition, she is the Institute's Equal Opportunity Officer.

Publications (selection):

• Haverkamp, R. / Schwedler, A. / Wößner, G.: Die elektronische Aufsicht von als gefährlich eingeschätzten Entlassenen. In: Recht & Psychiatrie, 2012, Issue⁄Volume 30/1, p. 9 - 20.
• Wößner, G. / Hefendehl, R. / Albrecht, H.-J. (eds.): Sexuelle Gewalt und Sozialtherapie: bisherige Daten und Analysen zur Längsschnittstudie „Sexualstraftäter in den sozialtherapeutischen Abteilungen des Freistaates Sachsen“. (Forthcoming) 2012.
• Wößner, G. / Wienhausen-Knezevic, E. / Rauschenbach, J.: Sozialtherapie im Jugendstrafvollzug – und dann? In: Jehle, J.-M. et al. (eds.): Täter – Taten – Opfer. Grundlagenfragen und aktuelle Probleme der Kriminalität und ihrer Kontrolle. Neue Kriminologische Schriftenreihe, Vol. 114 (forthcoming). Mönchengladbach, Forum Verlag Godesberg, 2012.
• Wößner, G. / Quenzer, C. / Vig, D.: The development of criminal law in Germany with an emphasis on sexual and juvenile offenses. In: H. Kury / E. Shea (ed(s).): Punitivity International Developments. Bochum, Brockmeyer Universitätsverlag, 2011, p. 375 - 393.
• Wößner, G. / Vogt, H.: Die Bedeutung von Störungen durch psychotrope Substanzen bei jugendlichen Strafgefangenen. In: Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 2010, Issue⁄Volume 93/5, p. 382 - 391.
• Woessner, G.: Classifying sexual offenders: An empirical model for generating type-specific approaches to intervention. In: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 2010, Issue⁄Volume 54/3, p. 327 - 345.
• Wößner, G. / Maier, I. / Sibold, M.: Die sozialtherapeutische Behandlung jugendlicher Sexualstraftäter: Ziele, Praxis, Divergenzen & Kongruenzen. In: P. Briken, A. Spehr, G. Romer, W. Berner (ed(s).): Sexuell grenzverletzende Kinder und Jugendliche. Lengerich, Pabst Science Publishers, 2010, p. 273 - 290.
• Wößner, Gunda / Groß, Juliane: Differenzierung von Gewalt- und Sexualstraftätern - Vergleichende Typisierung der beiden Tätergruppen. In: Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 2009, Issue⁄Volume 6, p. 247 - 263.
• Groß, J. / Wößner, G.: Kultur, Erziehung, Tradierung – Die Vermittlung kulturell geprägter Erziehungsinhalte. In: Recht der Jugend und des Bildungswesens, 2008, Issue⁄Volume 56 (2), p. 135 - 152.
• Wößner, G.: Typisierung von Sexualstraftätern.
  Ein empirisches Modell zur Generierung typenspezifischer Behandlungsansätze. Kriminologische Forschungsberichte, Berlin 2006, 271 p.
• Kury, H. / Chouaf, S. / Obergfell-Fuchs, J. / Woessner, G: The scope of sexual victimization in Germany. In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2004, Issue⁄Volume 19 (5), p. 589 - 602.
• Kury, H. / Obergfell-Fuchs, J. / Woessner, G.: The extent of family violence in Europe. In: Violence against Women, 2004, Issue⁄Volume 10 (7), p. 749 - 769.
• Kury, H. /Obergfell-Fuchs, J. / Kloppenburg, V. / Wößner, G.: New approaches of preventing sexual crimes in Germany. In: H. Kury / J. Obergfell-Fuchs (ed(s).): Crime Prevention – New Approaches. Mainz, Weißer Ring, 2003, p. 277 - 320.
• Kury, H. / Mesko, G. / Kajfez, N. / Woessner, G. / Wuerger, M.: Sexual victimization of young women – A comparison between Germany and Slovenia. In: G. Mesko, M. Pagon, B. Dobovsek (ed(s).): Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice. University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice, 2004, p. 634 - 641.
• Kury, H. / Woessner, G. / Lichtblau, A. / Neumaier, A: Fear of crime as background of penal politics? In: G. Mesko, M. Pagon, B. Dobovsek (ed(s).): Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice. University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice, 2004, p. 126 - 133.
• Wößner, G.: Statement on the conduct of investigations into past cases of abuse (in children’s homes) - Memorandum 73. In: House of Commons, Home Affairs Committee. The conduct of investigations into past cases of abuse in children’s homes, 2002, Issue⁄Volume 11, p. 129 - 130.

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