The German Research Foundation (DFG) approved extended funding of interdisciplinary programme “Crime in the modern city” (CRIMOC) conducted by SFB-882 project leader Prof. Dr. Jost Reinecke (Project A2 “The Emergence and Development of Deviant and Delinquent Behavior over the Life Course and its Significance for Processes of Social Inequality“) and Prof. Dr. Klaus Boers (University of Münster, Department of Law) for three more years. The CRIMOC project explores causes and courses of delinquent behaviour and effects of judicial control in a longitudinal study since the year 2000.
Links between CRIMOC and the research of SFB 882 project A2 are the analysis of the same phenomenon and similar sampling universes: development of youth delinquency over the life course. The CRIMOC study comprises nine panel times which enable researchers to gain findings about developments in the age groups of 13-14 year and 23-24 year olds. Distal factors (e.g. social milieus, family school, peers) as well as proximal factors (e.g. attitude concerning violence, rules of law) are incorporated in diverse explanation models. The results of CRIMOC project are useful for the research of SFB 882 project A2, notably for replication. Besides the analysis of mechanisms of social inequality (which is not in the focus of CRIMOC), turning points and desistance from crime over the life course are investigated in particular.
