Our projects
Intuition in criminal proceedings?
On the interdisciplinarity of motives in special preventive decision-making practice - analysis and synthesis
Intuition in criminal proceedings? -On the interdisciplinarity of motives in special preventive decision-making practice - analysis and synthesis is a project of the Province of Styria (UFO - Unconventional Research) led by Nina Kaiser and carried out together with Ida Leibetseder. The project aims to conduct a quantitative and qualitative survey of special preventive decision-making practices in criminal proceedings and their interdisciplinary nature.
Should I pack an umbrella? Take out insurance? Our lives are full of prognostic decisions that require us to weigh up numerous factors. The criminal justice system must also face such challenges, for example when examining the likelihood of an offender reoffending and making suitable interventions to prevent future crimes. The law provides the courts with a way to do this. But what factors are actually taken into account in these decisions? Can legal knowledge and experience provide sufficient material for such important decisions?
Duration 10/2022 - 09/2023
COVIOCRIM
Building strength and commitment to counter violent crime
COVIOCRIM - Building strength and commitment to counter violent crime is a preparatory funding project (Austian Development Cooperation) that will establish a long-term collaboration primarily between the ZiK and the Institute of Comparative and European Criminal Law at New Vision University, supported by the Clinical-Forensic Examination Center, Diagnostic and Research Institute of Forensic Medicine (MedUni Graz). It shall act as a platform for exchanging experiences and developing non-degree certificate programs for professionals in the sphere of counteracting violence, in particular against women and girls.
Duration 01/2023 - 05/2023
Building on the preparatory funding project, the follow-up project is now developing multiple interventions that will also reach other regions of Georgia.
Duration 03/2024 - 02/2027
Reuniting two masters of evidence: John Henry Wigmore and Hans Gross
On the traces of Austrian-American relations in criminal sciences at the dawn of the 20th century
Reuniting two masters of evidence: John Henry Wigmore and Hans Gross, is a project funded by the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies and led by Nina Kaiser. The project sheds light on the connection between the Graz professor and "father of criminal science" Hans Gross and the US-American professor John Henry Wigmore. Archive research will shed light on the relationship between the two pioneers and the Austrian-US connections in criminal science in the early 20th century. The project will provide insights into a (probably underestimated) influence of Austrian criminal science on US developments (and vice versa) and ultimately contribute to the understanding of historical developments in this field both in the United States and in Austria.
Duration: 09/2022 - 08/2023
Would you like to learn more about the project and its results?
In the Botstiber Podcast Nina Kaiser reveals details about the project.
