Public lecture series “Racism in the police” begins on May 13, 2025

Reports from people affected by racism about unprovoked police checks, humiliation or problematic use of force by the police continue unabated. They occupy the public debate; numerous political initiatives have been fighting for clarification, in some cases for decades. In recent years, empirical social and police research has also increasingly addressed the issue.

Racism in the police has various dimensions – from individual attitudes to structural forms – and can be examined in different ways. As part of the lecture series “Racism in the Police – Empirical Findings, Methodological Approaches and Controversies”, researchers will present current empirical studies on racist attitudes and knowledge structures, institutional reproduction mechanisms of racism and the perspectives of those affected in three lectures. The lecture series is organized by the Chair of Criminology and Criminal Law at the Institute of Criminology and Philosophy of Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in cooperation with Research Centre Normative Orders.