Joachim Kersten: Racism, Police Training, and the Fight Against Domestic Violence in Germany
Monday, June 15, 202012-1:30 pm Eastern Time (US)
Zoom Webinar
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Watch a recent expert interview by CNN International, What America can learn from German policing, with Joachim Kersten. (July 30, 2020)
About the Event
“Defund Police!” is one of the demands of the Black Lives Matter Movement in the wake of the brutal murder of George Floyd and the many other victims of police brutality in the US. In this webinar we take a look at how police are trained, equipped, and funded in Germany where the number of victims of police shootings is small. Kersten will also talk about his current research project on domestic violence, funded by the European Union.
About the Speaker
Joachim Kersten (Professor, Dr. soz. habil., Dr. soz., M.A.) studied science, history, and politics at the Free University Berlin, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He holds a doctorate from the University of Tübingen and a post doctoral degree from the University of Konstanz. He has written numerous books and journal articles on juvenile prison, youth crime, gendered violence, and police accountability/police and minorities.
He has taught at the University of Melbourne, Australia (1986-1991), at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan, and at Limburg University in Maaastricht, The Netherlands (1991-1993). From 1994 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2007 he was Professor of sociology at the University of Applied Police Studies in Baden-Württemberg. He also was Professor for German and Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL/USA. After 2007 he was Professor and Chair at the German Police University in Münster, with guest professorships in Sydney, Australia, Zurich, Switzerland, and Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is currently senior research professor at the Criminology Department of the German Police University (DHPOL), a graduate school for German and European police leadership, leading EU Horizon 2020 research on improving first line responders strategies concerning incidents of high impact domestic violence (www.improdova.eu).