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Lieven Pauwels

Background

Professor Dr. Lieven J.R. Pauwels is Professor of Criminology at Ghent University (Director of the Centre for the Study of Urban Crime & Delinquency & Co-director of the Research Group Social Analysis of Security). He obtained his PhD in 2006 in a study that integrated social disorganisation theory with key hypotheses derived from the Situational Action Theory in one of the largest cities of Belgium, Antwerp. He became Professor of Criminology in 2008. He is currently working together with Prof. Dr. G. Bruinsma, Dr. W. Bernasco and Dr. F. Weerman on the analyses of the The Hague data (The SPAN-project of the NSCR) and has previously cooperated with Dr. Dietrich Oberwittler (Max Planck Institute, Freiburg) in a comparative study on violent youth group involvement. He is actively involved in a Swedish-Belgian comparative project together with Dr. Robert Svensson (Malmö University) in testing key assumptions of the SAT and together with Marie Torstensson-Levander (Malmö University) on contextual effects of social trust and disorder on fear of crime.

He is the President of the Flemish Society of Criminology (VVC) and is especially interested in the study of the interaction between social ecological settings (especially social processes of settings one is exposed to) and individual level mechanisms that interact in the explanation of offending, fear of crime and victimisation.

For more information see http://www.ugent.be/en/@@people?ugentid=801001484965

Email: Lieven.Pauwels@UGent.be

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