Prof. Henk Elffers
Visiting Research Fellow
Email:
HElffers@nscr.nl
Research areas
Toggle- Spatial criminology
- Guardianship
- Rationale choice approach to criminal decision making
- Near-repeat offences
- Computational criminology using Agent Based Models
- Comprehensive punishment
- Police interrogation
- Probability argumentation in court
CV
Toggle| 2013-now | Guest reserarcher NSCR |
| 2013 | Emeritus professor Empirical Studies of Criminal Law Enforcement, VU University Amsterdam |
| 2008 | Adjoint professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University Brisbane |
| 2007-13 | Professor Empirical Studies of Criminal Law Enforcement, VU University Amsterdam |
| 2000-13 | Senior researcher NSCR |
| 1991 | PhD, Erasmus University Rotterdam, dissertation on the psychology of tax evasion |
| 1980-00 | Associate professor, department of Psychology of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 1976-80 | Assistant professor, department Human Geography, Utrecht University |
| 1974-76 | Consulting statistician, Mathematical Center, Amsterdam |
| 1974 | MSc Mathematical Statistics and Probability Theory, University of Amsterdam |
Ancillary positions
Toggle- Emeritus professor Empirical Studies of Criminal Law Enforcement, VU University Amsterdam
- Member, Board of Supervisors, Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer OSB, Amsterdam
- Treasurer, Willem Witsen Trust
Publications
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2017
Criminal decision making: time to reject the rational choice theory and go on with the dual process theory?
Another Look at Person-Situation Interaction: What Offenders Are Sensitive to What Situational Crime Prevention Measures?
2016
Het belang van empirisch onderzoek voor de rechtspraktijk: een analyse van toepassing van rechtssociologische en rechtspsychologische bevindingen.
Kijken naar jezelf en naar elkaar. Strafrechter en Officier van Justitie in de ogen van de jonge magistratuur
2015
Recent contributions by Henk Elffers
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