Meike Hecker, Dr. rer. soc.
Research Fellow funded by the Innovation Grants
Academic Career
2021 - 2023
Research Fellow
fundedy by the Innovation Grants at the Endowed Professorship of Crime Prevention and Risk Management
2013 - 2020
Research Associate
at the Endowed Professorship of Crime Prevention and Risk Management
2018
Doctorate
on the perception of police legitimacy in urban areas
2011-2013
Research Associate
Chair of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg
2011
Masters degree in International Criminology
at the University Hamburg
2009
Semester abroad
at the Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand
2008
Bachelors degree in Sociology/Psychology
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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).
Dissertation
Dr. Meike Hecker's dissertation "Vertrauen in die Stadt - Vertrauen in der Stadt. Die Wahrnehmungen polizeilicher Legitimität im städtischen Raum" was published in December 2018. It is part of the series "Zivile Sicherheit", edited by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Prof. Dr. Rita Haverkamp, Prof. Dr. Stefan Kaufmann and Peter Zoche, M.A.
Presentations
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22.09.2016
Prosperous, Tidy and Safe? The Perception of Incivilities in more or less Privileged Neighbourhoods in Germany
with Prof. Dr. Rita Haverkamp
Presentation at the 16th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology (Eurocrim 2016) dated 21. - 24.09.2016
Location: Münster (Germany)
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03.09.2015
Distributive Justice in Crime Prevention in Urban Contexts:
Just Ways of it's Distribution in two German Cities
with Prof. Dr. Rita Haverkamp
15th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology (Eurocrim 2015) dated 02.-05.09.2015
Location: Porto (Portugal)
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11.09.2014
Distributive Justice in Crime Prevention
with Prof. Dr. Rita Haverkamp
14th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology (Eurocrim 2014) dated 11.-13.09.2014
Location: Prague (Czech Republic)