In collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the NSCR will bring together various disciplines and expertise and work on a data infrastructure relating to environmental crime in the Netherlands. In line with its mission and strategy, the NSCR is thus developing the research areas of victimization (including environment-related victimization) and law […]
Worldwide, only 100 of these coins are awarded to individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to the development and application of a scientific basis for police practice. The coins are an initiative of the Canadian Society of Evidence-Based Policing and are also distributed through other societies, including that of the Netherlands. The recognition for […]
Mayor of Oegstgeest, Emile Jaensch, presented the royal honour to Catrien Bijleveld in the auditorium of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Bijleveld received this recognition for her exceptional contributions to criminology, legal science, and society. In 2001, she became the first professor in the Netherlands specializing in methods and techniques of criminological research. She played a key […]
Every year in the Netherlands, approximately 3 million people become the victim of a crime, of which approximately 1 million file a police report and approximately 250,000 participate in later phases of the criminal process. Over the past 50 years, victims have been given more and more rights in this process. The narrative of victimization […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
