Dr. Günter Stummvoll is the project leader who carries out the project at the Centre for Criminological Research at Keele University in England.
Günter Stummvoll has studied architecture before he changed to the study of sociology at the University of Vienna, where he gained a masters degree in 1999. For his masters-thesis on “neighbourhood watch” he spent 6 months at Monash University in the Australian City of Melbourne. Back home in Austria, he took a post graduate course in sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and subsequently spent 7 months as a post graduate research fellow at the Department of Criminology at Keele University (UK), where he specialised in the field of crime prevention and social control. After his return to Vienna he finished his doctoral studies in social science at the University of Vienna and worked as a research assistant at the Department of Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies.
From 2005 until 2008 he was employed as a professional researcher in the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology (IRKS) in Vienna. His major research projects include a hot-spot analysis of domestic burglaries in Vienna, the conduction of the 2nd International Self Report Study on Youth Delinquency (ISRD_2) in Austria, a concise documentation of the juvenile justice system in Austria, and research on the potential for implementation of CPTED principles in crime politics in Vienna.
Besides he has taught students of social work at the University of Applied Science in the city of St. Pölten in Austria, and most recently at the Danube-University Krems, Austria, as part of the professional training in security management.
