Prof. Dr. Axel Dessecker

Current research

  • Life sentences in Germany: length of time served and release
  • Post-sentence preventive detention and related prison sentences in Germany
  • Prosecution for terrorism-related offences in Germany - part of the national "Monitoring System and Transfer Platform on Radicalisation" (MOTRA)
  • Sentencing terrorism: an international comparative perspective


Publications


Academic status

Axel Dessecker is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Georg-August-Universität. He was Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminology (KrimZ) up to 2024.