Burkhard Hasenpusch joined the Crime Prevention Council of Lower Saxony (CPC) in Hanover in 2009 to develop inter alia, a databank on promising crime-prevention programs for a "Communities that Care" project and to analyse the data from the student survey conducted as part of that project. He also worked in the CPC's Beccaria project for enhancing quality in crime prevention. Since his retirement in 2012, he serves the CPC on a voluntary basis. Prior to joining CPS, Dr. Hasenpusch worked in Montréal on the evaluation of crime prevention programmes (Ècole de Criminologie), in New York on capital punishment (UN Secretariat) and designed an interdepartmental crime-prevention policy for the Lower Saxony Department of Justice in Hannover before joining the prison division there. His responsibilities included research and statistics in the prison service, the treatment of sexual offenders, academic and vocational training of prisoners, prison labour and chaplaincy services. Dr. Hasenpusch studied psychology in Kiel and criminology in Ottawa and Montréal.