Prof. Dr. jur. Frank Czerner

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Faculty of Social Work

Chair in Law relating to Social Work and General and Digital Forensic Science

Prof. Dr. iur. Frank Czerner
FakultƤt Soziale Arbeit
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09648 Mittweida
39-205
Postal address
Mittweida University
FakultƤt Soziale Arbeit
Technikumplatz 17
09648 Mittweida

Prof. Dr Czerner will be taking a sabbatical for research during the winter semester 26/27 at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg and at the University of Graz.

Publications / VIVO

F. Czerner

Das Tilgungsregime des Bundeszentralregisters als kontrafaktischer Unbescholtenheits-Indikator nach § 72a SGB VIII? Zur juristisch-viktimologischen ValiditƤt der ā€žnegativen PublizitƤtā€œ nach §§ 51 - 53 BZRG zugunsten des TƤtigkeitsausschlusses rechtskrƤftig Verurteilter zwischen Unschuldsvermutung (Art. 6 Abs. 2 EMRK) und Kinderschutz (Art. 3 UN-KRK i.V.m. Art. 103 UN-Charta)

Appeared in: Zeitschrift für Kindschaftsrecht und Jugendhilfe, 2026
21862 journalartikel
F. Czerner

Der Schutz vor Kindesmisshandlung am Maßstab von Art. 19 UN-KRK im Kontext der Telekommunikationsüberwachung und Online-Durchsuchung. Eine (auch) völkerrechtliche Anfrage zur fragmentarischen Implementation von Art. 19 UN-KRK in §100a, b StPO in Bezug auf §225 StGB.

Appeared in: Zeitschrift für Kindschaftsrecht und Jugendhilfe 5/2025, P. 159 – 164
Kƶln: Reguvis, 2025
21344 journalartikel
F. Czerner

Die Exklusiv-Rechtfertigung nach § 4 Abs. 3 KKG gegenüber § 34 StGB in VerdachtsfƤllen einer KindeswohlgefƤhrdung. Eine konventionsdominierte Rechtswidrigkeitsbestimmung zu § 203 StGB vor dem Hintergrund von Art. 3 UN-KRK und der Rechtsfigur der ā€žErmessensreduzierung gegen Nullā€œ

Appeared in: Zeitschrift für Kindschaftsrecht und Jugendhilfe 11/2025, P. 397 – 406
21345 journalartikel
F. Czerner

Beatifikation und Kanonisation als ā€žsakrale Konstruktion theologischer Wirklichkeitā€œ und als rƶmisch-katholische Ƅquivalente zum Labeling-Approach-Ansatz der Kriminologie?

Appeared in: Liber Amicorum. oder: Beinahe eine Festschrift für Arthur Hartmann., 2024, P. 69 – 120
21341 sammelbandbeitrag
F. Czerner

Der Vatikan als Signatar der UN-Kinderrechte-Konvention? Implementation kinderschützender Normen im Codex Iuris Canonici anlässlich der Apostolischen Konstitution Pascite Gregem Dei und des Motu Proprio Vos estis lux mundi auf der Basis des Wiener Übereinkommens über völkerrechtliche Verträge

Appeared in: Kanonistische Studien und Texte (KST) 82 (2024)
Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2024
ISBN: 978-3-428-19299-1
21343 monographie
  • Chair of the Faculty Examinations Board (and member of the University Examinations Board)
  • Member of the Ethics Committee at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
  • Member of the University’s Extended Senate
  • Domestic and international protection of children’s rights under constitutional law and international law: the Basic Law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • Medical-legal and medical-ethical issues concerning the beginning of life
    • Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis / genetic testing
    • Embryo protection
    • Termination of pregnancy
  • Forensic medical issues, particularly in connection with
    • Risk to the welfare of the child
    • Responsibility in a legal and normative context
    • Post-mortem examinations
    • Expert evidence and the assessment of evidence
  • Studied law at Ruhr University Bochum and at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr Hans-Jürgen Kerner and Prof. Dr Ulrich Weber at the Faculty of Law of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen on the topic: Pre-trial detention and its alternatives for young people as antagonists of a repressive-preventive alliance – A systematic-dogmatic analysis of minimal interventions designed to safeguard procedural integrity. 
  • Worked at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Tübingen, where the main focus was on
    • substitute lecturing in the subjects of criminal procedure law, juvenile criminal law, the prison system and criminology, and conducting examination seminars
    • Contributed to a research project investigating the practice and impact of state sanctions on young offenders
    • Contributed to the compilation of an anthology on the Council of Europe’s recommendations regarding deprivation of liberty at the Federal Ministry of Justice (Berlin), the Federal Ministry of Justice (Vienna) and the Federal Department of Justice and Police (Bern)
    • Contribution to the preparation of probation reports (suspension of the remainder of a sentence pursuant to Section 88 of the German Juvenile Criminal Act (JGG) or Section 57 of the German Criminal Code (StGB))
  • Obtained the Baden-Württemberg Certificate in University Teaching Methodology
  • Acting lecturer at the University of Kassel in two departments: 
    • Human Sciences: Law relating to Children and Young People (Summer Semester 2010)
    • Human Sciences: Law of Social Services and Institutions (Winter Semester 2010/11–Summer Semester 2013)
    • Economics: Labour, Economic and Social Law (Winter Semester 2011/12–Winter Semester 2013/14)
    • Chair of the Ethics Committee of Faculty 01 at the University of Kassel for psychological research from 2010 to 2012

Lawyer criticises Sweden’s tightening of juvenile criminal law

Statement by Prof. Dr. iur. Frank Czerner on MDR-Aktuell on 17 August 2026 regarding the tightening of criminal law in Sweden at the expense of children

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Expert work in General and Digital Forensic Science: Evidence gathering and preservation, legal interpretation and assessment in a murder case: Federal Court of Justice 6 StR 353/25 (Frankfurt/Oder Regional Court) > Joint lecture with Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Labudde in General and Digital Forensic Science, 30 June 2026, 17:00, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Lecture Theatre 5/120.

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