Prof. Anja Dirkzwager
Research areas
Toggle- Imprisonment
- Effects of Criminal Justice interventions
- The (mental and physical) health of prisoners
- Prisoners’ perceptions of conditions of confinement
- Procedural justice
- Families of prisoners
- Longitudinal research
Involved in theme(s)
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Toggle| 2023-now | Endowed professor of Probation, VU University Amsterdam |
| 2007-now | Senior researcher NSCR |
| 2017 | Recieved Correctional Research Award from the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) |
| 2001-07 | Researcher at NIVEL on the long-term health consequences of disasters |
| 2001 | PhD-degree for dissertation on posttraumatic stress reactions among military veterans |
| 1996-01 | PhD-student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Medical Faculty, Department of Medical Psychology |
| 1995 | Guest employee at Leiden University, Clinical and Health Psychology, assisting in a European study on suicide attempts |
| 1994 | University degree: Clinical and Health Psychology, Leiden University |
Ancillary positions
Toggle- Endowed professor of Probation, VU University
- Coordinator NSCR-cluster Sanctions
- Chair ESC Prison Working Group
- Chair advisory board ‘Nazorg monitor ex-gedetineerden’ of the WODC
- Member Ethics Committee for Legal and Criminological Research (CERCO)
- Member Mortality After Release from Incarceration Consortium (MARIC)
- Member WHO Europe Prison Health Research & Engagement Network (WEPHREN)
- Member ICPA Research & Development Expert Group network
- Member editorial board of Advancing Corrections
- Member editorial board of the German Online Journal of Criminology
Publications
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2022
2021
2020
2019
De psychische gezondheid van gedetineerden in België en Nederland: een systematisch overzicht
2018
2017
2016
Street-level bureaucracy en verwijzingen naar gedragsinterventies in Nederlandse penitentiaire inrichtingen. Discrepancies tussen beleid en praktijk
Recent contributions by Anja Dirkzwager
NSCR is part of the Institutes Organisation of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).