Department of Sociology and Social Psychology (DSS)

Dr. André Ernst

Main tasks

a.o.

• Managing Director of the Department of Sociology and Social Psychology
• Program Director B.Sc. Social Sciences and M.Sc. Sociology: Social Science
• Student Advisory Service
• Director of the WiSo Library (Sociology)
• Accreditation Department of Sociology
• Research and Teaching
• Coordination of the Thyssen Prize for Sociological Essays

Research focuses

• Analytical criminology / sociology
• Theories of action
• Context effects
• Rule breaking

Curriculum vitae

• 2022 Doctorate, Dr. rer. pol. (summa cum laude), University of Cologne
• 2016 Research stay, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
• 2012 Diploma, Sociology, University of Cologne

Selected publications

• 2026 Kroneberg, Clemens, André Ernst, and Christof Nägel: When does a provocation demand a violent response? A randomized scenario study of the code of the street. Theory and Society 55.
• 2023 Ernst, André, and Maria Gerth: Explaining cheating in schools with situational action theory: Within-estimations using a German school panel. European Journal of Criminology. 20(5): 1621-1640
• 2022 Sattler, Sebastian, Shannon Taflinger, André Ernst, and Fabian Hasselhorn: A Moderated Mediation Model Explaining the Relationship Between Risk-Group Membership, Threat Perception, Knowledge, and Adherence to COVID-19 Behavioral Measures. Frontiers in Public Health 10.
• 2022 Kroneberg, Clemens, Sven Lenkewitz, André Ernst, Maike Meyer, and Kai Seidensticker: Using police data to measure criminogenic exposure in residential and school contexts: experiences from a data linkage project in Germany. Police Practice and Research(4): 473-488.
• 2020 Ernst, André, and Sven Lenkewitz: Violence, street code internalization and the moderating effect of the status-violence norm in German schools. Criminology - The Online Journal | Criminology - The Online Journal:2 (1): 39-63.
• 2015 Bachmann, Mario, and André Ernst: Disciplinary measures in the juvenile penal system - results of a state survey and a longitudinal project on the juvenile penal system in North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia. Monthly Journal of Criminology and Criminal Law Reform: 98 (1): 1-15.