Biography

Lana Lemke is a Research Assistant in the Department of Crime and Policing, currently working on a project on court closures, sentencing guidelines and youth crime. Previously, she was a Research Assistant at DIW in the Gender Economics Department. She holds a Master's from Humboldt University of Berlin and a Bachelor's from the University of Heidelberg. Her research interests lie in the economics of crime, labour, migration and inequality.

Current areas of research include:

• Economics of crime and education: the effect of court closures and sentencing guidelines on sentencing and education outcomes of young offenders