Practices of social control in social/educational contexts

The conference is dedicated to the relationship between education and social control and focuses on a practice-theoretical perspective that can, among other things, make visible how social control is actually enacted in social/educational contexts and how unexpected consequences and constellations may arise. Together with selected, relevant researchers, central questions, methodological challenges and related research perspectives will be discussed.

The Center for Planning and Development of Social Services (ZPE) and the Institute for Social Pedagogy of Schools II at the University of Siegen are organizing the interdisciplinary conference "Psychiatry in Everyday Life - Implications for Social Work" in cooperation with the Berliner Werkstatt für Sozialforschung on 10.07.2026 at the University of Siegen.

Actors from the science and practice of psychiatry, social work, sociology, medicine and psychology are invited to discuss the growing importance of psychiatric categories in various institutional and private contexts of contemporary society in an interdisciplinary and, above all, cross-disciplinary manner.

Control, crime and criminalization in the context of historical crime research and criminology