Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

These issues include, in addition to general theoretical and doctrinal questions, current developments in law, technology, and society, i.e., internationalization, digitalization, and fragmentation.

The associated normative challenges of danger prevention are analyzed in terms of the protection of basic rights and the principles of rule of law and democracy.

The research program of the Department of Criminology focuses on the theoretical and empirical explanations for conforming and deviant behavior.

To this end, drawing primarily on psychological theories, innovative new research methods are employed, including computer-assisted experiments using virtual reality software.

With this programmatic organization, the Institute is in a position to address the entire spectrum of current, security-relevant issues – in terms of the phenomena and the associated actors, authorities, concepts, and instruments – in an analytical and methodically comprehensive manner.