Dr. Reinhold Melcher

Dr. Reinhold Melcher

Political Scientist | R and Python Enthusiast | Wanna-be-Criminologist

Hello there! I’m a postdoc fellow at the Saxon Institute for Police and Security Research (SIPS). My research interests focus on quantitative methods and statistical computing, electoral studies, political extremism and fear of crime. I have experience working with a variety of datasets using R and Python, including survey, spatial, network and textual data. I’m also experienced in crafting research designs for the social sciences as well as designing surveys and questionnaires. Feel free to contact me in case you have any questions regarding my work.

Skills

R

Data Analysis & Visualization

Statistics

Frequentist & Bayesian Methods

Python

Data Scraping & Programming

Research Designs

Confirmatory and Exploratory Research

Survey Methodology

Sampling Designs & Questionnaire

Writing

Academic Publishing & Research Reports

Job Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Saxon Institute for Police and Security Research (SIPS)
Postdoc Fellow
Saxon Institute for Police and Security Research (SIPS)
August 2020 – Present Rothenburg/O.L.
 
 
 
 
 
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Research Fellow
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
November 2016 – August 2020 Berlin
 
 
 
 
 
University of Hagen
Research Assistant
University of Hagen
April 2014 – March 2020 Hagen
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Recent Publications

Reinhold Melcher, Christoph Meißelbach (2024). Politische Kriminalitätsfurcht und Wahlverhalten: Wie die Sorge vor Extremismus und Issue-Ownership die Wahlabsicht prägen. In: Deliah Wagner, Jennifer L. Führer und Frank Asbrock (Hg.): Von Kriminalitätsfurcht zu Feindseligkeit. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 133-168.

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Christoph Meißelbach, Reinhold Melcher, Marcel Schöne, Tom Thieme (2023). Attitudes Towards the Corona Crisis in the Police Force. In: European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, 22, pp. 55-78.

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Reinhold Melcher (2022). (In-)Consistent voting in the 2009, 2013 and 2017 German federal elections. In: Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels und Christof Wolf (Hg.): The Changing German Voter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 165–182.

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Featured Research

Jun 1, 2024
Politische Kriminalitätsfurcht und Wahlverhalten: Wie die Sorge vor Extremismus und Issue-Ownership die Wahlabsicht prägen
Politische Kriminalitätsfurcht und Wahlverhalten: Wie die Sorge vor Extremismus und Issue-Ownership die Wahlabsicht prägen

Im Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich die politische Kriminalitätsfurcht im Zusammenspiel mit der wahrgenommenen Bedrohung durch linken und rechten politischen Extremismus auf das Wahlverhalten bzw. die Wahlabsicht auswirkt. Dabei geht es vor allem darum, welche Rolle dabei die Kompetenzzuschreibung („issue-ownership“) einzelner Parteien dabei.
Jan 14, 2023
"Then they simply go somewhere else...": An Exploratory Study of Crime Displacement in a German Context
"Then they simply go somewhere else...": An Exploratory Study of Crime Displacement in a German Context

Findings from a study (Mühler et al. 2022) on a weapon prohibition zone established on November 5, 2018, in Leipzig, Germany, indicate a decrease in crime rates within the zone. This paper asks whether the reduction is partially caused by displacement into surrounding areas or an actual reduction in crime.
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Contact

Saxon Institute for Police and Security Research (SIPS)