Jump to content

Johannes Feest: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
we have category names in plural, this is not the German wikipedia :)
mNo edit summary
Line 11: Line 11:
{{academic-bio-stub}}
{{academic-bio-stub}}


[[Category:German jurists]]
[[Category:German jurists|Feest, Johannes]]


[[de:Johannes Feest]]
[[de:Johannes Feest]]

Revision as of 17:06, 20 October 2006

Johannes Feest (* 21.11.1939 in Berlin) is a penologist and sociologist of law. He studied law in Vienna (Austria) and Munich (Germany) and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of criminal law at the University of Bremen (Germany). From 1995 to 1997 he directed the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati. He is the brother of Christian Feest and Gerhard Gleich.

Selected Publications

  • (1972) Die Definitionsmacht der Polizei. Strategien der Strafverfolgung und soziale Selektion (with Erhard Blankenburg). Düsseldorf: Bertelmann Universitätsverlag.
  • (1997) Totale Institution und Rechtsschutz. Eine Untersuchung zum Rechtsschutz im Strafvollzug (with Wolfgang Lesting and Peter Selling). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • (2001) Adapting Legal Cultures (edited with David Nelken). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
  • (2006) Kommentar zum Strafvollzugsgesetz, 5th edition. Neuwied: Luchterhand.