Johannes Feest is a penologist and sociologist of law.
He studied law in Vienna

Vienna

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 (Austria) and Munich

Munich

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 (Germany) and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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. From 1974 until his retirement in 2005 he was professor of criminal law at the University of Bremen

University of Bremen

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 (Germany). From 1995 to 1997 he directed the International Institute for the Sociology of Law

International Institute for the Sociology of Law

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 in Oñati

Oñati

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. Presently, he is primarily working in the context of the "Strafvollzugsarchiv an der Universität Bremen" (an institute for the socio-legal study of prisons). He is the brother of Christian Feest

Christian Feest

Christian Feest , is an Austrian ethnologist and ethnohistorian.Feest specialized in the Native Americans of the Northeast and in the Native American anthropology of art...

 and Gerhard Gleich

Gerhard Gleich

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Selected publications

• (1972) Die Definitionsmacht der Polizei. Strategien der Strafverfolgung und soziale Selektion (with Erhard Blankenburg). Düsseldorf: Bertelmann Universitätsverlag.
• (1997) Totale Institution und Rechtsschutz. Eine Untersuchung zum Rechtsschutz im Strafvollzug (with Wolfgang Lesting and Peter Selling). Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
• (2001) Adapting Legal Cultures (edited with David Nelken). Oxford: Hart Publishing.
• (2005) (2005) Sven Burkhardt/Christine Graebsch/Helmut Pollähne (Hrsg.), Korrespondenzen in Sachen: Strafvollzug, Rechtskulturen, Kriminalpolitik, Menschenrechte. Ein Lese-Theater als Feestschrift.Münster: Lit Verlag.
• (2006) Kommentar zum Strafvollzugsgesetz, 5th edition. Neuwied: Luchterhand.

External links

• http://www.strafvollzugsarchiv.de/wewa_start.php