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Masked person (a burglar) attempts to open a door with tools; subdued blue light.

What Motivates People to Commit Crimes?

January 02, 2026

Start of new New Max Planck Partner Group with University of Alabama more

Image collage: Award (certificate) and portrait

Tiburtius Recognition Award for Florian Slogsnat

December 10, 2025

Honor from Berlin Universities more

Logos of the "Big 5 Tech Companies" Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon und Microsoft

No Overall Strategy Against Digital Violence

December 08, 2025

News: In the press

BZ reports on lecture held by Johanna Rinceanu more

Symbol of teamwork with a group of seven persons pulling a rope.

How Parochialism and Altruism Shape Our Conflict Behavior

November 28, 2025

Max Planck researchers develop a new measurement tool more

Lukas Huthmann at the award ceremony in Göttingen.

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony Honors Lukas Huthmann

November 26, 2025

Legal scholar receives Academy Prize for Humanities more

from left: Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society, Tamir Sheafer, President of the Hebrew University

Defending democracy without destroying it

November 11, 2025

New Max Planck Center brings together researchers from Freiburg and Jerusalem more

Cover: eucrim 2/2025

Issue 2/2025 of the online journal eucrim now available

November 06, 2025

eucrim is an online journal that offers a Europe-wide platform for European “crimistrative” law and invites both practitioners and academics to engage in discussion. more

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