Jost Reinecke

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Jost Reinecke (born 20 August 1957) is a professor at Bielefeld University, where he teaches Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research in the Faculty of Sociology. He is a board member at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, and a member of the Center for Statistics (ZeSt) and of the research training group on “group-focused enmity” (884), as well as of the American Sociological Association (ASA). His research covers rational-choice theories in social science; the development and use of classification and structural equation models in cross‑sectional and longitudinal studies; methods for handling missing data; youth health topics such as AIDS prevention and contraception; the development of juvenile delinquency over time; and regional differences in disorientation and group-focused enmity. He is an associate editor of Kriminologie und Kriminalsoziologie (since 2006) and of Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsmethoden (since 2009).