The German Research Foundation (DFG) approved extended funding of interdisciplinary programme “Crime in the modern city” (CRIMOC) conducted by SFB-882 project leader Prof. Dr. Jost Reinecke (Project A2 “The Emergence and Development of Deviant and Delinquent Behavior over the Life Course and its Significance for Processes of Social Inequality“) and Prof. Dr. Klaus Boers (University of Münster, Department of Law) for three more years. The CRIMOC project explores causes and courses of delinquent behaviour and effects of judicial control in a longitudinal study since the year 2000.