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American Society of Criminology (ASC) www.asc.org
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) www.asjc.org
European Society of Criminology www.esc-eurocrim.org
Police Futurists International (PFI);
www.police
futurists.org
Member board of directors Societé International de
Criminologie
www.sic-isc.org/
Thomas F. Feltes (1951) is University Professor in
Criminology, Criminal Police and Police Science at the
Law Faculty, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (www.rub.de).
He teaches law students (capacity of the law faculty:
3.500 students) and is responsible since 2005 for an
blendes learning, advanced Masters Program in
Criminology and Police Science with 70 students each
year. Since 2007 he is a corporate professor at the
Faculty of Social Sciences.
From 1992 until 2002 he served as the Head (Rector) of
the University of Applied Police Science in
Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany (www.fhpol-vs.de)
with 1.300 police students and a faculty of 54 full-time
professors.
Thomas Feltes earned his PhD in law and his M.A. in
social sciences from the University of Bielefeld,
Germany. He did criminological research and academic
teaching at the law faculties at the Universities of
Bielefeld, Hamburg, Heidelberg and Tübingen (1979-1992).
He was a research fellow by the Canadian Government at
the University of Montréal (1986/1987). In 1992, Feltes
finished his "Habilitation" at the Law Faculty of the
University of Tübingen, Germany. In 1993, he was a
Visiting Professor at Eötvös-Lorand-University in
Budapest by invitation of the Hungarian government.
Thomas Feltes has outstanding experience in
international and national reorganization of police
forces, criminal justice institutions, and public
administration and in developing curricula for police
training. He is a leading expert in Train the Trainer
programs.
Thomas Feltes was member of a project group on
Management of Criminal Justice Systems by the Council of
Europe (1991-1995). Since 1995, he acts as a special
expert for the Council of Europe, for the OSCE and the
UN in different programs. He also acts as an adviser for
Police Training in many European countries, but also
worldwide. He worked and lectured e.g. in Azerbaijan,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Hungary,
Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa.
He is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences (ACJS), of the Steering Committee of ISPAC
(International Scientific Prevention Advisory Council to
the United Nations), of the American Society of
Criminology (ASC), the European Society of Criminology
(ESC) and the Police Futurists International (PFI).
Since 2006 he is member of the Scientific Committee of
the International Society of Criminology (SIC/ISC).
Thomas Feltes is the (co-)author and editor of 15 books
and over 160 articles on juvenile law, sentencing,
alternative sanctions, public prosecution, policing. He
has recently finished empirical research on Police Work,
on Community Crime Prevention, and on Management of
Prosecution Systems in Germany. Ongoing empirical
studies are on Domestic Violence, on Patrol Police
Activities, on Juvenile Crime and "Incivilities" in
Communities, and on Community Crime Prevention and
Police Use of Force (together with about ten colleagues
worldwide, see
www.policeuseofforce.org. He is the editor of
volumes on police science and empirical police research
in Germany (together with Hans-Juergen Kerner) (www.Felix-Verlag.de).
Thomas Feltes is listed in Marquis Who´s Who in the
World. In 2000 he was honored by the Hungarian
Government and received the official Millennium Medal
for his activities in the cooperation between the
Hungarian and German Police Forces. Thomas Feltes is the
Editor of "Police Newsletter", a monthly e-mail-newsletter
on Police information (in German language since 1998, in
French and in English since January 2002) see
www.police-newsletter.com.
Empirical Research: Victimization, fear of crime,
everyday policing, juvenile delinquency, school violence,
prevention of theft, prevention of car related crimes
(international), police use of force, policing the
streets of Europe, study success of migrants in Germany,
etc.
