ERC Consolidator Grant awarded for project on “The Collective Bystander”
50 years ago the public myth about passive bystanders originated with the case of Kitty Genovese, a young woman raped and murdered in New York. Reporters claimed 38 people witnessed the crime but did nothing to help her. Although the police case file later showed that some bystanders in fact had tried to help, the […]
NWA-ORC grant awarded for research project DE-ESCALATING
The Onderzoek op Routes door Consortia (In English: Research on Routes by Consortia) (ORC) programme of the Nationale Wetenschapsagenda (In English: National Science Agenda) (NWA) has awarded funding to nine consortia. Each project will receive around 6.7 million euros. Within the NWA programme, the connection between society and science is essential. Governments, researchers, social organisations […]
NSCR researchers involved in podcast series ‘De leerkracht achter de veerkracht’ about dealing with radicalization and polarization in education
Action shyness Some students are sensitive to radical and polarizing messages during their development and express this in and around the classroom. It is a challenge for teachers and education professionals to respond adequately and to prevent this. They often experience ‘action shyness’. Researchers from the Verwey Jonker Institute, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and […]
Stijn Ruiter appointed endowed chair of Evidence-Based Policing
Evidence-based policing has been on the rise since the late 1990s, and is an approach to explicitly base decision-making on police practices and policies on the best available evidence. Scientific research contributes to this by focusing on the question of how policing works, in what circumstances it works, and for whom – and by whom […]
How can ticket inspectors and police officers manage conflict? Research provides practical recommendations
Ticket inspectors and police officers are more likely than workers in other sectors to be exposed to threats and violence from citizens. While there has been a general societal decline in violence, the number of self-reported incidents of violence and threats in these sectors remains high. The seriousness of this problem is underlined by evidence […]
NWO grant awarded for research on social media and juvenile delinquency
With the rise of social media and smartphones, the social world of young people has fundamentally changed. However, what this means for the role of peers in juvenile delinquency remains unclear. On the one hand, young people nowadays live in a hybrid world where online communication is simply one of the ways to maintain contact […]
Start research into signs of child abuse for the benefit of educational professionals
The consequences of child abuse for children are severe, but it is recognized too little and too late, for example by professionals. Or, professionals struggle with the question of how to address these suspicions. The sooner help comes for children who experience child abuse, the better. In collaboration with Fonds Slachtofferhulp (the Dutch Victim Support […]
This summer school will acquaint participants with some of the most important theories, research, and ideas in contemporary criminology. Lectures address various subfields within the discipline and discuss the state of the art, presenting established and well-researched areas—such as social networks, and rational choice—as well as novel and emerging topics, including the role of personality […]
26 September | Symposium Reparative Justice Through International Justice Procedures for Victims
Download the flyer here Language and Registration The symposium will be in English. It is required to sign up for the symposium. Sign up through https://forms.gle/srz6kXVZH1YgfeJ69
Evaluation: NSCR top research institute for crime and law enforcement
Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP) Every six years NSCR is evaluated. This is done using the Strategy Evaluation Protocol (SEP), which was created by the Dutch Research Council (NOW), Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschapen (KNAW) and Universiteiten van Nederland (UNL) to provide a sound basis for evaluations of research groups and institutes. The SEP evaluation of the […]
26 september | Conferentie Evidence Based Policing in de Praktijk
Sinds de introductie in de jaren negentig van de vorige eeuw is evidence-based policing (EBP) aan een opmars bezig. In landen zoals de Verenigde Staten, Canada, Australië en het Verenigd Koninkrijk richten onderzoekers in samenwerking met de politie zich al langer op de vraag hoe politiehandelen werkt, in welke omstandigheden dat handelen werkt en voor wie – […]
Jihadist radicalization in problematic youth groups
The investigation was prompted by a unique case study in Delft, where several young people from a problematic youth group traveled to Syria in early 2013. For the first time, researchers have reconstructed what exactly happened and how radicalization arose within this youth group. A problematic family background, a lack of perspective in a deprived […]
