The EPIC research programme: effectively reducing youth’s involvement in serious and organized crime A consortium of researchers, policymakers and practitioners has set up the project EPIC: Explaining, Preventing, and Intervening in organized Crime involvement, with support from the Dutch National Science Agenda (NWA). First phase and second phase In the first phase of EPIC, existing […]
An emerging field of research Due to the global scarcity of natural resources, transnational criminal organisations are increasingly turning to environmental crime. As a result, it has become one of the largest criminal markets in the world. This development raises important criminological and legal questions. Despite the major impact of environmental crime, the relationship between […]
Past and ongoing projects of the NSCR Video Group have utilized video data to examine phenomena as diverse as street violence, robberies, public riots, sexual harassment, open-air drug markets, police-citizen conflicts, COVID-19 compliance behavior, ethnic profiling, deviancy training among adolescents, and contested encounters between employees and shop customers, public transport passengers, and nightlife visitors. A […]
Also check out the NSCR study into the magnitude, nature and severity of domestic violence during the Corona crisis: Stay home, stay safe? (opent in een nieuw venster) (in Dutch) 2023 How Citizens Stop Riots: Analyzing the Case of the 2021 Dutch Curfew Riots (opent in een nieuw venster) 2022 Networks in lockdown: The consequences […]
This police research is developed and carried out by the NSCR, with the cooperation of the National Police, the Police Academy, universities from the Netherlands and abroad, universities of applied sciences and other knowledge institutions. We provide research into concrete, fundamental questions in the field of police, similar to Anglo-American police research where evidence-based policing, […]
Becoming a victim of a crime can be a traumatic experience. Victimization varies from theft of your bicycle so that you have to buy a new bicycle, theft of your data of which it is unclear what damage you will experience, or becoming a victim of stalking, sexual abuse or international crimes, of which the […]
Rutger Leukfeldt Cybercrime includes numerous offenses and can be studied from different theoretical perspectives. In current research, for example, life-course theory and routine activity theory are used. Because little empirical research has been done into cybercrime, it is unclear whether – and to what extent – traditional theories of criminology can be used to explain […]
Andrew Lemieux The thematic group Wildlife Crime and Wilderness Problems conducts fundamental and applied research on topics such as the location choices rhino poachers make, the detection probability of snares by ranger patrols, the use of crime scripting to unpack wilderness problems, how to measure the deterrent effect of law enforcement interventions, drivers of poaching […]
About the SANCTION Study Every year, tens of thousands of people in the Netherlands are subject to community service orders, suspended sentences, probation supervision, or diversion measures (such as the Halt intervention). Yet we know remarkably little about how these community-based sanctions and measures are decided upon and implemented, and what their long-term impact is. […]
Wouter Steenbeek This research programme is strongly rooted in theories that emphasize situational causes of crime (as opposed to individual causes), including not only rational choice theory, routine activity theory, crime pattern theory, and space-time geography, but also broken windows theory and social disorganisation theory. Research topics The research topics vary with respect to their […]
