Dr. Elke Wienhausen-Knezevic

Her professional career encompasses many years’ experience in empirical social research, criminology, science communication and academic teaching. Since 2024, she has been coordinating the Integrated Research Training Group of SFB 1369 ‘Cultures of Vigilance’ at LMU Munich. Prior to her current position, she held postdoctoral research positions at LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (now the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law). She also worked as a research assistant at the University of Bern. Alongside her research, she has extensive teaching experience and expertise in coordinating interdisciplinary research projects. She studied sociology at LMU Munich, obtained an LL.M. in criminology and criminal justice at the University of Greifswald, and was awarded her PhD magna cum laude from the University of Freiburg in 2016. Since 2025, she has been undertaking further training to become a certified mediator. She has volunteered as chair of the parents’ council at the “Haus für Kinder”, a Munich-based childcare centre.

Monograph

• Wienhausen-Knezevic, E. (2020): Life course dynamics of young ex-prisoners. An empirical interaction model (ZARIA scheme) for analysing post-release trajectories. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.

• Albrecht, H.-J., Walsh, M. & Wienhausen-Knezevic, E. (Eds.) (2019): Desistance processes among young offenders following judicial interventions. Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches in desistance research. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin.
  
  Selected Academic Articles
  
• Wienhausen-Knezevic, E. (2023): “Reporting behaviour: self-empowerment and trust (or loss of trust) using the example of whistleblowing, COVID-19 and tax fraud reporting portals”. In: Techniques of Responsibilisation, pp. 215–268.
• Herold, N. & Wienhausen-Knezevic, E. (2022): “Whistleblowing as a cultural phenomenon: Ambivalences in societal evaluation”. In: Kölbel, R. (ed.): Whistleblowing. Volume 1: Current Status and Perspectives of Empirical Research, pp. 234–266.
• Wößner, G. & Wienhausen-Knezevic, E. (2014): “No country for young men – education and employment before, during and after detention in the youth justice system”. Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 96(6), pp. 477–495.

• 2019–2023: Member of ‘LMU Mentoring Programme for Early-Career Researchers’ at the Faculty of Law
• 2019–2022: Member of the ‘Responsibilisation’ Working Group, SFB 1369 Cultures of Vigilance, LMU Munich
• 2015: ‘DAAD Conference Travel Grant’ to attend the ASC Annual Meeting (American Society of Criminology) in Washington D.C.
  

• Since May 2025 | Part-time further training to become a certified mediator
  
  Akademie Perspektivenwechsel, Munich; certification through the Bundesverband MEDIATION e. V. (BM), expected to be completed in December 2026.