Prof. Dr. Vincenz Leuschner
Prof. Dr. Vincenz Leuschner co-leads Cluster C together with Hartmut Aden, Daniela Hunold, Matthias Kötter and Markus Schultze-Kraft. This cluster explores the resilience of legal and illegal global value and supply chains in the context of security, contestation, accountability, and the rule of law. Within Cluster C, he serves as work package leaders for WP1: Antagonistic Threats to Global Supply and Value Chains. Vincenz has been Professor of Criminology and Sociology at the HWR Berlin since 2017. Previously, he worked as a professor at the Berlin University of Applied Education and as a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin. His research focuses on violence research (rampage shootings, terrorism), research into social problems, sociology of security, developmental criminology, crime prevention and the sociology of social relationships.
Research Areas
- Targeted violence (school shootings, terrorism)
- Radicalization
- Juvenile delinquency
- Social Construction of Security and Security Management
- Psychosocial Crisis Management and Community Resilience
- Social problems: poverty, social exclusion
- Social relationships and networks (friendship)
Selected Publications
Leuschner, V. (2023). Von Columbine zu Christchurch – Demonstrative Attentate im Überlappungsbereich von Amok und Terror. In: Coester, M., Daun, A., Hartleb, F., Kopke, C., Leuschner, V. (Hrsg.) Rechter Terrorismus: international – digital – analog. Edition Rechtsextremismus. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40396-6_2
Leuschner, V. (2022). Gesellschaftliche Bedingungen und soziale Prozesse terroristischer Radikalisierung. In: Rothenberger, L., Krause, J., Jost, J. & Frankenthal, K. (Hrsg.). Terrorismusforschung. Interdisziplinäres Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis (pp. 249-260) Baden-Baden: Nomos. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748904212-255
Sommer, F., Leuschner, V., Fiedler, N., Madfis, E., Scheithauer, H. (2020). The role of shame in developmental trajectories towards severe targeted school violence: An in-depth multiple case study, Aggression and Violent Behavior, 51, 1359-1789. doi. 10.1016/j.avb.2020.101386.
Leuschner, V. & Scheithauer, H. (2017). Die Dekonstruktion des „Schulamoklaufs“. Zielgerichtete, tödliche Gewalttaten junger Menschen an ihren Bildungseinrichtungen – Erkenntnisse der neueren Forschung. SIAK-Journal. Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis, 3/2017, 28-40.
Leuschner, V., Fiedler, N., Schultze, M., Ahlig, N. Göbel, K., Sommer, F., Scholl, J., Cornell, D. & Scheithauer, H. (2017). Prevention of Targeted School Violence by Responding to Students’ Psychosocial Crises: The NETWASS Program. Child Development, 88, 68–82. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12690