Caren Stegelmann is a sociologist whose research focuses on criminal trial observation and critical police and institutional research.
She holds an MA in European Studies from the Universities of Leipzig and ENS Paris, a BA in Sociology, Politics, and Economics, and is affiliated with the Research Institute for Public and Private Security (FÖPS Berlin).
Within the scope of the project, she is particularly concerned with the function and effect of technically mediated evidence in criminal proceedings and its relationship to witness testimony.
Publications
- From the People’s Police to the Saxon Police – The Saxon State Criminal Police Office after reunification. In: Mike Schmeitzner/Carsten Schreiber//Tom Thieme (eds.): Transformations of the Police. The Saxon State Criminal Police Office in the 20th Century, Nomos, 2024.
- Between scandalizing and normalizing: A Look at Department 1 of the Criminal Police of the GDR after 1990. (Forthcoming)
- (With Tabea Louis) Divide and Rule. On the Policing of the Sense of Security and ‘Good Order’ in the Timelines on Twitter and Instagram. In: Martin Thüne/Kathrin Klaas/Thomas Feltes (eds.), Digital Police. Current Fields of Application, Potentials, Limits, and Abuses, Verlag für Polizeiwissenschafte, 2022.
- The Police on Twitter. From “Hey you there!” to “Stop that!” #onlylovecounts. In: Arzt, Hirschmann, Hunold, Lüders, Meißelbach, Schöne, Sticher (eds.): Perspectives on Police Research: 1st Young Researchers’ Conference on Empirical Police Research, Berlin, 2021, pp. 185-200.
- “Ceci n’est pas un gilet jaune” A research report on a confusing movement. In: FORUM scholarship magazine of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2019/1
Contact:cstegelmann(at)mnet-online.de