Where, when and how is crime committed?

One of the key questions of NSCR research focuses on where, when and how crimes are committed. Why does crime concentrate in certain locations rather than in others? Is it because offenders happen to know these locations, as they are close to their home, job or (previous) school? Data from crime scenes and activity patterns of perpetrators and victims provide insight into the underlying choice behaviour of perpetrators.

We investigate the way in which crimes are committed and in which situational context: are bystanders and law enforcement officers present and do they have an (active) role? Carefully studying and analysing CCTV footage is a game changer for the study of crime. Researchers see real-time how situations unfold and can thus study and unravel the behaviour of perpetrators, victims and bystanders.

Program leader: Stijn Ruiter

Curfew during lockdown: number of people on the street not much different

4 February 2021

Also read our factsheet One Year of Social Distancing Behavior on the Streets of Amsterdam. Drawing on video footage from municipal public space cameras in Amsterdam, we investigated behavioral compliance with a curfew installed as a Covid-19 mitigating measurement in a period of lockdown. Based on the existing studies of the effect of curfews on […]

Problem-oriented policing adapted to wildlife protection

27 January 2021

Officers for a national wildlife authority, may experience déjà vu while on the job. They arrest poacher after poacher but the poaching threat is not decreasing. They get called out to deal with crop raiding animals, but despite culling and translocation, each year there are more callouts. Probably they are not alone in thinking ‘if […]

How do people decide who to intervene towards in street conflicts?

15 January 2021

Imagine that you are walking down a street and two individuals start to fight. Many of us want to believe that we would intervene and help in this kind of situation. But helping can be challenging – fights are often fast paced and can appear chaotic. There is oftentimes not a clear division between who […]

Securing Protected Areas: The Decision-making of Poachers and Rangers

4 December 2020

Despite considerable effort to reduce the harm, poaching continues to be a serious threat to many wildlife populations around the world. Strong and robust security of protected areas is an essential element of long term conservation success. Formal law enforcement, such as rangers patrolling a protected area, is a common security strategy used to detect […]

Short intensive course: Systematic Video Observation and Analysis of Human Conflict

13 October 2020

Systematic video observation is a methodology developed as a joint venture of scholars from criminology, anthropology, psychology, ethology, and sociology over the last five years. The course is therefore also set up as a joint venture between the scholars that have been involved in this development. They will take on the role of instructors in […]

Growing up in a single-parent family increases the risk of criminal behaviour during adolescence

13 October 2020

In the European Union and the United States 15 and 27% of children, respectively, grow up in a single-parent family. Although the proportion of single-parent families has remained stable in recent decades, a clear shift is visible in how single-parent families come into being: this happens more often due to a divorce or with the […]

NWO-Veni and two NWO-Vidi’s for NSCR researchers and fellows

12 October 2020

Veni | Choosing the good side: factors that lead to non-criminal hacking Dr Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg | VU University Amsterdam | Fellow NSCR Cybercrime In contrast to criminal hackers, non-criminal hackers actively help in securing IT-systems. By examining lifecourse characteristics of non-criminal hackers, as well as situational and cultural factors, this study will show why […]

Compliance, busyness and social distancing during the requirement to wear a face mask

20 September 2020

By analysing images from security cameras in the face mask areas before and after the requirement to wear face masks and comparing these with areas where there was no such requirement, people’s behaviour could be accurately described. The research examined the wearing of face masks, busyness and changes in busyness, and compliance with the 1.5 […]

Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard professor by special appointment of Dynamics of Crime and Violence

18 September 2020

How do crime and violence develop in sequences of interactions? What do people do if they become involved in such interactions and how can we understand and explain their behaviours? What are the consequences of their actions for the safety of all those involved and how can crime and violence be managed and controlled? These […]

Where, when and how is crime committed?

Program leader: Stijn Ruiter

Curfew during lockdown: number of people on the street not much different

Problem-oriented policing adapted to wildlife protection

How do people decide who to intervene towards in street conflicts?

Securing Protected Areas: The Decision-making of Poachers and Rangers

Short intensive course: Systematic Video Observation and Analysis of Human Conflict

Growing up in a single-parent family increases the risk of criminal behaviour during adolescence

NWO-Veni and two NWO-Vidi’s for NSCR researchers and fellows

Compliance, busyness and social distancing during the requirement to wear a face mask

Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard professor by special appointment of Dynamics of Crime and Violence

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