Preventive guardianship: being there is often enough
‘The police cannot do it alone’ is a frequently heard cry. This means that citizens can also be expected to play a role in the fight against crime. Initiatives like Burgernet or Report crime anonymously, are mainly aimed at the help of citizens if a crime has already taken place, for example in detecting the […]
The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making: insight into criminal behaviour
How do criminal choices come about? This question is addressed in virtually every discussion about crime and law enforcement. Yet there is few material available that deals with the decision-making behavior of criminals. Are potential perpetrators deterred by punishment? How do they deal with the chance of being caught? What do emotions have to do […]
Barbora Hola Appointed as Member of the Young Academy of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
Barbora Hola works as Senior Researcher at the NSCR and as Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University Amsterdam. In 2017 she received a WISE fellowship to develop her research line on empirical studies of international criminal law and transitional justice after atrocities. Her research focuses in particular on […]
The Veni is awarded by NWO every year. 1127 researchers submitted a proposal for a Veni grant. These proposals were assessed by means of peer review by broadly composed committees of external experts from the disciplines concerned. The assessment also included personal interviews with the applicants. This time 154 researchers who have recently obtained their […]
Improving Wildlife Protection Strategy and Metrics with Practitioners
Drawing on lessons learned from the Wildlife Crime Analysis programme, NSCR invited the group to collaborate on a series of publications meant to improve wildlife protection strategies and metrics used to measure success. The research produced by this collaboration integrates lessons learned in tiger protection with those learned from protecting elephants and rhinos in Africa. […]
NWO has awarded senior researcher Jean-Louis van Gelder a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros for his ‘future selves’-project. The grant enables him to develop his own innovative line of research and set up his own research group. Individual Vidi grants enable researchers to do research for five years. NWO awards Vidi grants every year. Crime […]
Three researchers to receive Research Talent funding
The board of the NWO domain Social Sciences and Humanities decided last week which proposals will receive funding under the Research Talent programme. Research Talent offers excellent students in the social and behavioural sciences the opportunity to do PhD research. Three up-and-coming researchers are to conduct PhD research at NSCR with NWO funding, namely Gabriele […]
In May 2017 former director Gerben Bruinsma retired from the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). To mark this occasion, NSCR organised a symposium on Friday, May 12th 2017, focusing on his contribution to criminology. Gerben Bruinsma obtained his PhD at the University of Nijmegen in 1985. His dissertation examined […]
Prestigious Sellin-Glueck award for Gerben Bruinsma
Gerben Bruinsma, Professor of Environmental Criminology at VU University Amsterdam, is this year’s recipient of the Sellin-Glueck award in criminology, the highest award given by The American Society of Criminology to scholars from outside the USA. Now in its 43th year, the Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award aims to draw attention to […]
Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology
We are proud to announce that the Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology, edited by Arjan Blokland (Senior Researcher) and Victor van der Geest (A-Lab Fellow), will be in print as of March 2017. What started out as a European project grew into an international volume featuring studies from the US, Canada, the UK, Denmark, […]
Barbora Hola has been given a WISE-position at NSCR
Barbora Hola has been given a position at NSCR in the first round of the NWO Women In Science Excel (WISE) programme . This tenure track programme provides talented female scientists with the opportunity to continue or develop their own research group and ultimately advance to a top position at the institute in question. Four […]
Globalisation of Fisheries Conference | February 3‐5 | Texel
The prevalence, actors, ecological impact and regulation of illegal fishing NIOZ and NSCR organised this 3-day international conference to discuss current issues regarding the globalisation of fishing fleets and their impact on rich marine ecosystems. The aim was to bring the best possible information together, identify current gaps in knowledge, discuss opportunities to improve knowledge, […]
