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Overview

Wolfgang Frisch is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their academic output spans multiple disciplines, primarily within the social sciences and earth and planetary sciences.

The main fields of study for Wolfgang Frisch include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of study are:

  • Law
  • Geophysics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Atmospheric Science

The topics addressed in their work cover a range of subjects such as:

  • Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Criminal Law and Policy
  • Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
  • Social Issues and Policies in Latin America
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Wolfgang Frisch has published several papers recently, including:

  • "Teoría de la pena, concepto de delito y sistema del hecho punible en transformación" (2020) in Revista de Estudios de la Justicia
  • "Zur objektiven Zurechnungslehre: Erfolgsgeschichte und Irrwege" (2022) in JuristenZeitung
  • "Sobre a teoria da imputação objetiva: uma história de sucesso e equívocos - Ao mesmo tempo, uma contribuição à necessidade de revisão do sistema do fato punível" (2024) in Revista do Instituto de Ciências Penais
  • "Teoría de la pena, concepto de delito y sistema del delito" (2024) in InDret

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Frisch include:

  • Martín Meschede
  • Ronald C. Blakey

Among the key publication venues are:

  • Revista de Estudios de la Justicia
  • JuristenZeitung
  • Revista do Instituto de Ciências Penais
  • InDret

Wolfgang Frisch has also contributed to book publications with multiple titles through different publishers:

  • Mohr Siebeck eBooks: "Notwendigkeit und Legitimation staatlichen Strafens" (2021) and "Lebendiges und Totes in der Verbrechenslehre Hans Welzels" (2025)
  • Springer International Publishing: "Plate Tectonics" (2022)

Best Publications

  • Lateral extrusion in the eastern Alps, PArt 2: Structural analysis

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Wolfgang Frisch;Hans-Gert Linzer;Olivier Merle

  • Distributed deformation in southern and western Tibet during and after the India-Asia collision

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Wolfgang Frisch;Guanghua Liu;Chengsheng Chen

  • Assembly of the Pamirs: Age and origin of magmatic belts from the southern Tien Shan to the southern Pamirs and their relation to Tibet

    Martina Schwab;Martina Schwab;Lothar Ratschbacher;Wolfgang Siebel;Michael McWilliams

  • Extension in compressional orogenic belts: The eastern Alps

    L. Ratschbacher;W Frisch;F. Neubauer;S. M. Schmid

  • A plate-tectonic model for the Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic history of the Caribbean plate

    Martin Meschede;Wolfgang Frisch

  • Palinspastic reconstruction and topographic evolution of the Eastern Alps during late Tertiary tectonic extrusion

    Wolfgang Frisch;Joachim Kuhlemann;István Dunkl;Achim Brügel

  • Tectonic progradation and plate tectonic evolution of the Alps

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  • Post-collisional orogen-parallel large-scale extension in the Eastern Alps

    W Frisch;I Dunkl;J Kuhlemann

  • Post-collisional sediment budget history of the Alps:tectonic versus climatic control

    J. Kuhlemann;W. Frisch;B. Székely;I. Dunkl

  • SLAB IN THE WRONG PLACE : LOWER LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE DELAMINATION IN THE LAST STAGE OF THE EASTERN CARPATHIAN SUBDUCTION RETREAT

    Radu Gîrbacea;Wolfgang Frisch

  • The Xigaze forearc basin: evolution and facies architecture (Cretaceous, Tibet)

    G Einsele;G Einsele;B Liu;S Dürr;W Frisch

  • Quaternary deformation in the Eastern Pamirs, Tadzhikistan and Kyrgyzstan

    M. R. Strecker;W. Frisch;M. W. Hamburger;L. Ratschbacher

  • Transpressional collision structures in the upper crust: the fold-thrust belt of the Northern Calcareous Alps

    Hans-Gert Linzer;Lothar Ratschbacher;Wolfgang Frisch

  • Balancing lateral orogenic float of the Eastern Alps

    Hans-Gert Linzer;Kurt Decker;Herwig Peresson;Rudi Dell'Mour

  • Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift and Mountain Building

    Wolfgang Frisch;Ronald Blakey;Martin Meschede

  • The change from rifting to thrusting in the Northern Calcareous Alps as recorded in Jurassic sediments

    H. J. Gawlick;W. Frisch;A. Vecsei;T. Steiger

  • Kinematic evolution of the Romanian Carpathians

    Hans-Gert Linzer;Wolfgang Frisch;Peter Zweigel;Radu Girbacea

  • TOPO-EUROPE: the geoscience of coupled deep earth-surface processes

    S. A. P. L. Cloetingh;P. A. Ziegler;P. J. A. Bogaard;P. A. M. Andriessen

  • Quantifying tectonic versus erosive denudation by the sediment budget: the Miocene core complexes of the Alps

    J. Kuhlemann;W. Frisch;I. Dunkl;B. Székely

  • Mirdita Zone ophiolites and associated sediments in Albania reveal Neotethys Ocean origin

    Hans-Jürgen Gawlick;Wolfgang Frisch;Lirim Hoxha;Paulian Dumitrica

  • Late Archaean high-K granite geochronology of the northern metacratonic margin of the Archaean Congo craton, Southern Cameroon: Evidence for Pb-loss due to non-metamorphic causes

    C.K Shang;Jean-Paul Liégeois;M. Satir;W. Frisch

Frequent Co-Authors

István Dunkl
István Dunkl University of Göttingen
Joachim Kuhlemann
Joachim Kuhlemann University of Tübingen
Lothar Ratschbacher
Lothar Ratschbacher TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Martin Danišík
Martin Danišík Curtin University
Wolfgang Siebel
Wolfgang Siebel University of Freiburg
Noreen J. Evans
Noreen J. Evans Curtin University
Uwe Ring
Uwe Ring Stockholm University
Paul D. Bons
Paul D. Bons University of Tübingen
Friedemann Wenzel
Friedemann Wenzel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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