Meike Hecker, Dr. rer. soc.

Research Fellow funded by the Innovation Grants

Dr. Meike Hecker worked as a Research Fellow funded by the Innovation Grants at the Endowed Professorship of Crime Prevention and Risk Management of Prof. Dr. Haverkamp at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen since 2013. Before, she was employed as a Research Associate and successfully obtained her doctorate in July 2018 on trust in the city and the perception of police legitimacy in urban areas. Her dissertation was realized in the context of her work at the Endowed Professorship in the joint project VERSS (Aspects of a Just Distribution of Security).
Previously, Meike Hecker worked in a DFG (German Research Foundation) project on crime prevention effects of anti-corruption programs at the Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg. She completed her master's degree in International Criminology and her bachelor's degree in Sociology at the University of Hamburg. During her studies, Meike Hecker spent a semester abroad at the University of Wellington, New Zealand, and wrote her masters thesis on police reconstruction in Burundi in cooperation with the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).

• SiBa (2017-2020)
• VERSS (2013-2017)