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Rita Haverkamp

Principle committee memberProfessor of Crime Prevention and Risk Management, University of Tübingen

Professor at the University of Tübingen in Germany since 2013, before Senior Researcher at the former Max Planck Institute of foreign and international Criminal Law

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Biography

Prof. Dr. Rita Haverkamp (1966) is a distinguished German legal scholar specializing in criminology, crime prevention, and risk management. She studied law at the universities of Passau and Freiburg, completing her first legal state exam in 1993 and her legal clerkship at the District Court of Freiburg in 1996. Haverkamp earned her doctorate in 2002 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a dissertation on electronically monitored house arrest and completed her habilitation in 2010 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich with a focus on women in prison.

From 2008 to 2013, she was a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Since October 2013, she has held the Endowed Professorship for Crime Prevention and Risk Management at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Prof. Haverkamp is actively involved in academic advisory boards, including the Scientific Advisory Board of the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony and the Advisory Board of the Kriminologische Zentralstelle (KrimZ) in Wiesbaden. Her extensive research and publications address topics such as sentencing, migration and crime, human trafficking, urban security, and evidence-based crime prevention.
She took up the position of Vice President of the IPPF effective February 14 2025.