Background
Kirchhoff, Gerd Ferdinand was born on February 15, 1939 in Iserlohn, Germany. Arrived in Japan, 2003. Son of Hans Reinhardt Kirchhoff and Johanna Maria Cuneral (Pont) Herbers.
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Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff
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Gerd Ferdinand Kirchhoff, German law educator. Achievements include first diversion program in juvenile justice in Germany; introducing victimology into German social work studies; edited the first Reader in Victimology (together with Klauss Sessar) in Germany; research in hidden sexual victimization; research in victim compensation in Germany and Japan.
Education
Juris Doctor, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, 1973.
Career
Professor criminal law, criminology and victimology Rhineland University Applied Sciences, Moenchengladbach, Germany, 1972—2003. Professor faculty victimology Tokiwa University, Mito, Japan, since 2003. Member Tokiwa International Victimology Institute.
Co-founder, co-director annual post graduate courses Inter University Center Dubrovnik, Croatia, since 1983.
Achievements
Membership
Founder innovative social work program Juvenile Division. Member of World Society Victimology (member executive committee since 1984, secretary general 1988—2000, president 2000-2003, secretary general since 2009, member executive committee 2009), Victimological Drustro Srbije (honorary), Mexican Society Criminology and Victimology (honorary), Argentina Association Victimologia (honorary).
Connections
Married Patricia Ann Vinson, January 27, 2006.
Education
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1973
Career
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2003
Awards
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Recipient Golden Needle of Volunteer award, Mayor, City Moenchengladbach, 2002, Outstanding Services award, Deutsche Paritaetische Wohlfahrtsverband Northrhine-Westphalia, 2003.Recipient Golden Needle of Volunteer award, Mayor, City Moenchengladbach, 2002, Outstanding Services award, Deutsche Paritaetische Wohlfahrtsverband Northrhine-Westphalia, 2003.