Johannes Feest
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. Presently, he is primarily working in the context of the "Strafvollzugsarchiv an der Universität Bremen" (an institute for the socio-legal study of prisons). 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.
- (2005) (2005) Sven Burkhardt/Christine Graebsch/Helmut Pollähne (Hrsg.), Korrespondenzen in Sachen: Strafvollzug, Rechtskulturen, Kriminalpolitik, Menschenrechte. Ein Lese-Theater als Feestschrift.Münster: Lit Verlag.
- (2006) Kommentar zum Strafvollzugsgesetz, 5th edition. Neuwied: Luchterhand.
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