Return to Faculty List Joachim Kersten Ph.D. Joachim Kersten Dr.soz.habil. UniversitŠt Konstanz. DAAD-Professor for German and Political Science. Comparative aspects of culture, gender, and politics, contemporary Germany, youth subcultures in modern societies. Recent books include Der Kick und die Ehre (on youth crime and protest in post-unification Germany) and Gut und (Ge)schlecht (Masculinities and violence in Australia, Japan and Germany). His articles have appeared in International Sociology, British Journal of Crimonology, and International Journal of the Sociology of Law.   [e-mail: j-kersten@northwestern.edu]