Prof. Anja Dirkzwager
Senior Researcher
Email:
ADirkzwager@nscr.nl
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
Doing your own time: Peer integration, agression and mental health in Dutch male detainment facilities
Recent contributions by Anja Dirkzwager
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