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SPAN (Study of Peers, Activities and Neighbourhoods)

This cross-sectional study is applying PADS+ methodologies to a sample of young people in The Hague. PADS+ researchers have hosted and attended a series of collaborative workshops to share knowledge about these methodologies and potential research challenges.

Prof. Dr. Gerben J. N. Bruinsma studied sociology and criminology at Utrecht University, graduating in 1975. He became lecturer of criminology and penology at the Criminological Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen and in 1981 left for the Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy at Twente University at Enschede. In 1985 he was appointed as associate professor in methodology and research methods. In the same year he finished his doctoral dissertation ‘Crime as a social process. A test of the differential association theory in the version of K-D. Opp’.

He was co-founder and Director of the International Police Institute at the University of Twente, where he became professor of criminology in 1995. From 1999 he has been Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), a national research institute of the National Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and professor of criminology of the faculty of Law at Leiden University.

His key research interests include criminological theory, juvenile delinquency, policing, organized crime and geographic criminology.

For more information: http://www.nscr.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=117&print=1&cv_id=9&pub=1

Email: GBruinsma@nscr.nl

 

Dr. Wim Bernasco studied social psychology at Leiden University, focusing on suicide in jails and prisons and on the handling of native and non-native juveniles by the juvenile police. He was a graduate student and subsequently a post-doc at the department of Sociology at Utrecht University.

Before joining the NSCR in 2000, he worked at the Institute for Labour Studies (OSA) in Tilburg, at the Department of Psychology of Leiden University, and at the Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice (WODC). He is a senior researcher within the NSCR Mobility and Distribution of Crime group. His current work focuses on spatial aspects of criminal activities, including variations in crime and delinquency between neighbourhoods, offender travel behaviour and target selection, and crime displacement. He is also involved in research on recidivism and organised crime.

For more information:http://www.nscr.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=117&print=1&cv_id=1&pub=1

Email: wbernasco@nscr.nl

 

Dr. Frank Weerman received his Masters degree in Sociology in 1992, with a specialization in Criminology, and his PhD in 1998 at the University of Groningen. For his dissertation he conducted an empirical study on juvenile delinquency, to test and expand Hirschi's social control theory. From 1998 until 2000, he was affiliated as a postdoc researcher at the University of Twente, where he wrote a book about co-offending, criminal cooperation and group formation. He has been a senior researcher with the NSCR since August 2000.

His research interests include juvenile delinquency and criminological theory; the role of peers in delinquent behavior; troublesome youth groups and street gangs; and school factors like truancy and dropout. He was involved as coordinator in the “School Project”, a longitudinal study among secondary school students on problem behavior in and outside school, the reactions of schools to these problems, and the role of peers and student networks in juvenile delinquency.

For more information:http://www.nscr.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=117&print=1&cv_id=32&pub=1

Email: fweerman@nscr.nl

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