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Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to the fourth edition of the Gender & Crime conference, which will take place on Thursday, 12 and Friday, 13 March 2026 in Göttingen. Next year, the conference will once again be organised as a face-to-face event in the proven cooperation between the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), the German Women Lawyers‘ Association (djb) and the Institute of Criminal Law and Justice at the Georg August University of Göttingen.

After the previous conference in 2024 was dedicated to the structures, causes and conditions of gender-specific violence, the 2026 conference is now entitled ‘Gender in the context of social polarisation’. In view of the current political and social shift to the right and the findings of an increasingly divided society, we would like to use the conference to shed light on the relationship between these developments and discourses on gender, crime and criminal law.

We are therefore particularly pleased to receive abstracts on the following topics:

  • Anti-feminism and gender backlash, also with regard to possible effects on (criminal) law
  • Intersectional perspectives, for example on the interaction of misogyny and racism
  • Examination of possible tendencies towards a racist instrumentalisation of (sexual) criminal law
  • Constructions of masculinity in the extreme right
  • Perpetration and victimisation in the social context of increasing polarisation
  • Feminist (criminal) justice policy and the shift to the right – challenges and ambivalences
  • Increase in trans and queer hostility
  • Reproductive rights in the context of authoritarian developments

This list of topics is not intended to be exhaustive; submissions beyond this are welcome. We look forward to international and comparative perspectives on the topics mentioned. The event will be held mainly in German. We will endeavour to provide translation options into English.

In addition to a keynote speech and a panel discussion, the contributions will be presented and discussed in various panel sessions and a poster session. There will also be plenty of space for participants to network. Following the conference, the publication of conference proceedings is planned, in which the presentations and results of the conference will be summarised. Written contributions are expected to be submitted by the end of July 2026.

Abstracts for panel and poster contributions can be sent from now until 30 September 2025 to genderandcrime@kfn.de (subject: ‘Abstract Gender & Crime 2026’). The text can be written in German or English and must not exceed 1,500 characters (including spaces). Abstracts should be submitted together with a short CV (max. 2 pages). A decision on the acceptance of contributions will be made by mid-November.

We look forward to receiving your abstract!

Registration

The conference fee is €50 (€30 for students).

Conference Programme

We will endeavor to provide English translations for the German presentations.

Day 1 – March 12, 2026

9.30
Arrival
 
 
10.00
Welcome
 
 
10.30
Panel-Session 1: Violence, victimization, and gender roles
1. Zwischen Tradition und Egalität: Partnerschaftsgewalt im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Geschlechterrollen – Ina Bieber, Laura-Romina Goede, Almut Schumann & Julia Weymeirsch
2. „Unsichtbar, weil nicht weiblich? Prostitution im blinden Fleck gesellschaftlicher Debatten – Ergebnisse der Evaluation des ProstSchG“ – Robert Küster
3. Übersehen, stigmatisiert, gefährdet? Lebensrealitäten jenseits weiblicher Prostitution – Laura Treskow
4. “Genderapartheid als Strafbarkeitslücke im Völkerstrafrecht – Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze“ – Dr. Donja Hodaie
 
 
12.00
Lunch break
 
 
13.00
Main lecture: Keynote speech on the conference theme – Prof. Dr. Ursula Birsl
 
 
14.00
Break
 
 
14.15
Poster-Session
1. Feministische (Straf-)Rechtspolitik und Rechtsruck – Kinga Koszalka
2. Lebenssituation, Sicherheit und Belastung im Alltag (LeSuBiA) – Erste Ergebnisse zu Gewalterfahrungen innerhalb und außerhalb von (Ex-)Partnerschaften – Nathalie Leitgöb-Guzy, Ina Bieber, Laura-Romina Goede & Almut Schumann
3. Rechtsruck und schrumpfender Frauenanteil in den Parlamenten – steigende Korruptionsrisiken? – Dr. Juliane Schwarz-Ladach
4. Does Victim Gender Matter? Sexual Violence Against Women and Men in the War in Ukraine – Katarzyna Witkowska-Rozpara, Barbara Blonska & Liudmyla Dubchak
5. Nutzungsstatistik der Männerschutzeinrichtungen – Bundesfach- und Koordinierungsstelle Männergewaltschutz
 
 
15.15
Break: Coffee and cake
 
 
15.45
Panel-Session 2: International perspectives
1. Anti-Feminism and Gender Backlash – What We Know So Far and What Can We Expect? – Draga Gajić
2. Domestic Violence and the Paradoxes of Women’s Emancipation in Stalin-Era Azerbaijan – Roiala Mamedova
3. Unjust Provocation in Turkish Criminal Law: The Gender Dimension – Dr. Merve Selin Şohoğlu
4. Gender Polarization in Justice Systems: The Treatment of Female Sexual Violence Survivors in Nigeria’s Patriarchal Legal System – Dr. Segilola Oladejo & Dr. Richard Aborisade
5. Reproductive Rights in Contestation: Abortion, Moral Politics, and Gender Backlash in Indonesia – Desi Yunitasari & Devi Yusvitasari
 
 
17.20
End of the event
 
 
19.00
Optional: Joint dinner

 

 

Contact

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

Lena Deyerling
Social scientist, M.A.
genderandcrime@kfn.de
+49 511 34836-25