Crime and Responses to Crime: Consensus or Conflict?

GERN (Groupement Européen de Recherches sur les Normativités) is a large consortium of scientific researchers in the domain of deviance and social control, more precisely studying delinquency, penal institutions, public policies of security and the importance of penal questions in society. Every two years, GERN organizes a doctoral summer school, giving PhD students from the consortium the opportunity to present and discuss their ongoing projects and research results as well as to meet young and senior researchers.

This edited publication is the 8th volume of the GERN Research Paper Series, stemming from the doctoral summer school that took place in Berlin in 2024. It was organized by the Centre Marc Bloch, which is a member center of GERN.

Topic of the doctoral school was “Crime and Responses to Crime. Consensus or Confl ict?” The study examines the concept of what a society considers to be a crime as a temporary consensus that emerges from conflicts or socially contested negotiation processes, and explores new topics in the field of how crime and deviance are defined, as well as the role that conflict and consensus play in this respect.