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Joachim J. Savelsberg

Protrait: Joachim J. Savelsberg

Professor
Dr. rer. pol. 1982 University of Trier, FRG
Room 1181 Social Sciences
Phone: 612-624-0273
Email: savel001@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Interest Areas

Sociology of Law; Sociology of Knowledge; Criminology; Sociological Theory.

Current Research

Consequences of collective memory for use of law or force by collective actors; Shaping collective memory of atrocities through law and alternatives.

Cross-national & historical variation of punishment (role of institutions: knowledge production & decision-making [state, law, science, religion]).

Selected Publications

Crime and Human Rights: Criminology of Genocide and Atrocities. Forthcoming 2010. London: Sage.

"Franz Kafka: Bureaucracy, Law and Abuses of the 'Iron Cage'." Forthcoming in: Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers, Ch. Edling & J. Rydgren, eds. Praeger.

"Globalization and States of Punishment." Forthcoming in: Comparative Criminology and Globalization, D. Nelken ed. Ashgate.

"The Social Organization of Denial and Acknowledgement." (French) 2008. Actes de la Recherche en Science Sociales, 173: 110-118.

"Law and Collective Memory," with Ryan D. King. 2007. Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, 3: 189-211.

"Human Rights Violations, Law, and Collective Memory: Toward a Research Agenda" (Portuguese). 2007. Tempo Social: Revista de Sociologia da USP, 19:13-37.

Criminal Courts. 2006. Co-edited with J. Dixon & A. Kupchik. Ashgate.

"Institutionalizing Collective Memories of Hate: Law and Law Enforcement in Germany and the United States," with Ryan D. King. 2005. American Journal of Sociology, 111(2): 579-616. (2006 Best Article Award, Law & Society Association; 2007 Best Article Award, American Sociological Association, Section on Culture).