Rate My Professor Monika Stempkowski

Monika Stempkowski serves as tenure-track Assistant Professor of Criminology (Assistenzprofessur für Kriminologie), heading the Criminology Division and the Legal Psychology Research Unit at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna. Born in 1986 in Vienna, she obtained a Master of Laws (Mag. iur.) from the University of Vienna in 2011 after studies from 2005 to 2011, and a Master of Psychology (Mag. rer. nat.) from the University of Vienna between 2004 and 2013, including time at Urbino, Italy. She completed training as a clinical and health psychologist in 2014 and is registered as a certified mediator with the Federal Ministry of Justice since 2015. Her doctoral studies in law commenced at the University of Vienna in 2015.

Stempkowski began her academic career at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology in 2012 as a university assistant under Prof. Dr. Christian Grafl, holding the position from 2012 to 2013, followed by external lecturer roles from 2013 to 2015, and resuming as university assistant from 2015 to the present, advancing to her tenure-track professorship. Prior experiences include work in addiction care in Vienna from 2008 to 2013 and traineeships at the Regional Criminal Court Vienna and County Court Josefstadt in 2011 and 2015. She serves as a research assistant at the Austrian Center for Law Enforcement Sciences and lectures at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt. Her research interests encompass legal psychology, victimology, mentally ill offenders, drug crime, interrogation techniques, probation services, and legal interpreting in criminal proceedings. Notable publications include co-editing Organised Crime, Criminal Procedure, and Prisons: Prosecuting and Punishing Organised Criminal Groups (Routledge, 2025) with a chapter on 'Organised Crime and Prisons'; co-authoring Legal Interpreting and Questioning Techniques Explained (Routledge, 2024) with Mira Kadrić and Ivana Havelka; 'Probationary services in a pandemic: Results from an empirical study in Austria' (Probation Journal, 2021, with Christian Grafl); and contributions to the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics. She participates in the TransLaw Research Group and teaches on transnational organised crime.