Research
Conspiracy narratives in the Austrian population: causes, risk factors and prevention
Conspiracy narratives and conspiracy mentalities – i.e. the fundamental disposition to believe in conspiracies – are leading to social and security policy challenges at an increasing rate, especially regarding their potential to endanger democracy...
Systematic research on ways individuals deal with potentially justiciable problems, on the extent, factors and framework conditions of different forms of individual legal mobilization has been largely lacking for Austria...
Monitoring of the social climate in prisons
Monitoring the social climate in prison is becoming increasingly relevant internationally because studies show that prison climate influences not only the quality of prison life but also reoffending. Unlike many European countries that already conduct such measurements, there is ...
BeWirkt - Impact Evaluation of the Austrian Probation Services
Probation services help offenders to come to terms with the crime they have committed and to avoid reoffending. Assistance further aims to support probationers in securing their own livelihoods and help them implement constructive changes in various areas of their lives. In ....
MEDIAS - Mediation as an instrument of dispute and conflict resolution
The study provides systematic and meaningful empirical data on the application practice, quality and effectiveness of out-of-court mediation according to the Austrian ZivMediatG. The study also analyzes the interrelationship between mediation and civil jurisdiction...
Repressive sanctions in criminal law against young people often have adverse consequences. Therefore, most jurisdictions jurisdictions provide for alternatives to react to juvenile delinquency with minimal intervention, educational sanctions and social constructive reparative measures. Finding the right form of reaction requires...
ESBH - Efficient and secure architectural design of prisons in Austria
Despite constant modernization measures, the structural diversity of Austrian prisons poses a challenge for the implementation of uniform standards that meet the needs of all users (prison management, employees and inmates)...
DigitRes - Digital rehabilitation in prison
Austrian prisoners are largely excluded from modern information and communication technology (ICT). As our society evolves into a digital information society, there is an increasing demand of developing ways in which inmates can be granted access to modern ICT without putting security in prisons, but also in society, at risk. Digitization in prison entails risks, but also opens up...
Rechtsmobilisierung durch Individuen
Das Forschungsvorhaben setzt am rechtssoziologisch sowie rechts- und demokratiepolitisch zentralen Themenkomplex „Zugang zum Recht“ an. Im Fokus steht insbesondere...
Research on place-oriented predictive policing in Austria
The research assignment consists of an in-depth investigation of place-oriented predictive policing approaches used in Austria based on the near-repeat concept. It will also include a description of the Austrian efforts to ....
The J-CAP project aims at improving the execution of Framework Decision 2008/947, which lays down rules for facilitating the recognition and application of probation measures and alternative sanctions among ...
Over the next three years, pupils of all school types throughout Austria are to be sensitized to the topic of extremism and their resilience to radicalization strengthened. Starting in April 2022, up to 3.000 workshops on extremism prevention ...
IRKS support for the further development of the judicial part of the Security Report
Until the 2019 reporting year, the "Security Report - Report on the Activities of the Criminal Justice System" only contained information on offense groups or individual offense phenomena connected to ...
Restrictions on freedom in care, i.e., physical and chemical restraints, and nursing facilities for people with disabilities or mental illnesses to prevent endangerment of self and others (third parties) are acts of …
Stratex - Strategies of extremist organisations within the education sector
This research project analyses the objectives, strategies, networks and the concrete approaches of extremist organisations in the education sector in order to provide information necessary for ...
Pretriad - Alternative pre-trial detention measures
According to estimates based on Council of Europe data, around 350,000 people were in pre-trial detention in one of the member states in early 2019. It is a generally recognized principle that pre-trial detention should ...
International research on security in the public sphere illustrates the multitude of uncertainty and insecurity factors that interact in a complex way on a physical-spatial, individual/psychological, and ....
BI:JU - Biography work in open youth work
Causal research on the radicalisation of young people show a failed or fragile identity development and a tenuous relationship towards one’s own biography as central risk factors for turning towards ...
Studie zum Ehe- und Partnerschaftsrecht
Die Studie zielt darauf ab, empirische Grundlagen für eine zeitgemäße Weiterentwicklung des Ehe- und Partnerschaftsrechts zu schaffen, um die rechtlichen Regelungen von Partnerschaften anwendungsorientierter ...
HC-POL-DATA: Systematic hate crime data collection and reporting of the Austrian Police
The project aims to improve the recording of derogatory bias motives in criminal charges on a scientific basis. Bias-motivated crimes in the sense of "group-focused enmity" are to be made visible and comprehensively documented statistically by the member states...
Das aktuelle Kennzahlensystem zur Erfassung der Leistungen der durch Vereine erbrachten gerichtlichen Erwachsenenvertretung wurde vor ca. zehn Jahren im Kontext des Vertretungssystems des Sachwalterrechts entwickelt ...
Overcrowded prisons, high numbers of prisoners with mental health issues, high numbers of foreign national prisoners, and increasing numbers of reported assaults upon prison guards and brawls between inmates suggest that ...
The project aims to design and disseminate an online campaign including deradicalizing and preventative online resources (mainly online counter-narratives, such as the stories of former extremists); videos ...
Erfahrungen und Prävention von Gewalt an Menschen mit Behinderungen
Die empirische Studie strebt erstmals österreichweit eine repräsentative Erfassung von unterschiedlichen Gewalterfahrungen von Menschen mit Behinderungen an. Der Fokus der Studie liegt auf erwachsenen Personen, die in Institutionen leben...
Zur Unterbringung psychisch kranker Menschen - Rechtsanwendung und Kooperationszusammenhänge
Das Forschungsvorhaben zum Unterbringungsgesetz verfolgt die Zielsetzungen, evidenzbasiertes wissenschaftliches Wissen zur tatsächlichen Rechtsanwendung sowie den Bedingungsfaktoren und Folgewirkungen der aktuell ...
Adolescents are particularly vulnerable when it comes to extremist propaganda spread via the internet and the New Media. One the one hand, this is due to young people being more susceptible to radical positions ...
The research project examines how young people who have grown up in Austria become IS sympathisers. Where do these young people who end up in prison for participating in a terrorist organization, radicalise?
Im Jänner 2016 ist in Österreich das Bundesgesetz über alternative Streitbeilegung in Verbraucherangelegenheiten (Alternative-Streitbeilegung-Gesetz – AStG) in Kraft getreten. Diese Norm hat ...
DETOUR - Towards Pre-Trial Detention as Ultima Ratio
he use of alternatives to pretrial detention, however, is not without difficulties for both suspects and practitioners. In the countries represented in the project, the availability of alternatives to pretrial detention and their use vary considerably ...
ELFUM - Electronic monitoring as a resource for up-to-date prison management
During the last twelve years, the Austrian prison system was considerably overcrowded at times. Above all, this affects the inmates, but also prison staff. Considering these conditions ...
Outreach youth work offers setting-orientated social consultation and support on a communal level. The primary target group is a socially vulnerable one, specifically young persons with ...
Begleitforschung zur Konfliktarbeit von wohnpartner
Das Forschungsprojekt begleitet einen bei wohnpartner stattfindenden Entwicklungsprozess in der Konfliktarbeit, der im Wesentlichen aus der Ausweitung der zu bearbeitenden Konfliktfälle und ...
Im Dezember 2014 beauftragte der Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund das Institut für Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie mit der zeithistorisch-sozialwissenschaftlichen Erforschung von ...
Evaluation des Modellprojekts "Unterstützung zur Selbstbestimmung"
Unter dem Titel "Unterstützung zur Selbstbestimmung" führt das BMJ seit März 2014 ein Modellprojekt mit einer angestrebten Laufzeit von ca. 2 Jahren durch, das die Schaffung und Förderung von ...
The proposed research will use a comparative design to establish whether better police-minority relations can be achieved through means of a Restorative Justice (RJ) approach. It will determine ...