Board
The board members are employed at the Criminology sections of the universities involved in CIROC (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Maastricht University, Utrecht University, VU Amsterdam), and at WODC, the Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security.
On the profile pages of the board members, you will find detailed information about their expertise, research interests and publications.
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Prof. dr. Hans Nelen (UM) (chair)
Hans Nelen studied law and criminology at VU University Amsterdam. In December 1986, he joined the WODC, where he worked as a (senior) researcher until September 2001. Since 2007, Hans Nelen has been a professor of criminology at the criminal law and criminology capacity group at Maastricht University. Nelen's research activities focus in particular on organized crime, corporate crime, and how to tackle these phenomena.
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Dr. Nienke Liebregts (WODC)
Nienke Liebregts is a researcher at the Scientific Research and Documentation Center (WODC), where she primarily conducts qualitative research in the field of criminology. She has more than 15 years of experience in researching drug use and addiction, including cannabis and stimulant use, and drug policy. Her more recent research interests include phenomena related to organized crime and drug markets.
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Prof. dr. Edward R. Kleemans (VU)
Edward Kleemans is a professor in the Department of Criminology at the Faculty of Law of VU University Amsterdam and conducts research into organized crime and cybercrime and the interaction between offenders and the criminal justice system (including police matters). Until 2013, he was head of the Crime, Law Enforcement, and Sanctions Research Department (CRS) at the Scientific Research and Documentation Center (WODC) of the Ministry of Security and Justice in The Hague.
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Prof. dr. Daan van Uhm (UU)
Daan van Uhm is Professor of Environmental Crime and Associate Professor of Criminology (Open University/Utrecht University). Daan van Uhm has conducted research into various forms of environmental crime, including illegal mining in Latin America, wildlife trafficking in Southeast Asia, deforestation in Central Africa, and the criminalization of ecocide. In 2016, he obtained his PhD in criminology from Utrecht University. Van Uhm specializes in green criminology and focuses primarily on research in the context of environmental crimes and damage.
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Prof. dr. Dina Siegel (UU)
Dina Siegel has been Professor of Criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Justice and Criminology at Utrecht University since January 1, 2009. She studied Social Anthropology and Sociology at Tel Aviv University and obtained her PhD from VU University Amsterdam in 1996. Dina Siegel conducts research into various forms of organized crime. She has published on the Russian mafia, trafficking in women, drug smuggling, terrorism, and crime in the diamond industry. She also conducts research in cultural criminology.
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Dr. Robby Roks (EUR)
Robby Roks is an associate professor of Criminology at the Department of Law, Society, and Crime at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. As a researcher, he is interested in street culture, gangs – ‘traditional’ street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and hybrid gangs – and organized crime. His current research project is Monitor Organized Crime in the Netherlands, based on criminal investigations by the police and judicial authorities.
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Prof. dr. Toine Spapens (TU)
Toine Spapens, who has been affiliated with Tilburg Law School since 2004, specializes in organized crime and international police and judicial cooperation. He conducts research into crime and security issues and the functioning of government agencies, focusing in recent years on (cross-border) organized crime and the fight against it, with an emphasis on the border region between the Netherlands and Belgium. Spapens is considered one of the leading experts in the field of international police cooperation within the European Union.
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Prof. dr. Richard Staring (EUR)
Richard Staring joined Bureau Beke as a senior researcher in 2023 and has also been appointed professor of Empirical Criminology at Erasmus School of Law. His research and publications focus on metropolitan social phenomena such as poverty, superdiversity, violence, and crime, as well as various forms of (international) organized crime and its (policy) approach. Research into irregular international migration and undocumented migrants is a recurring theme throughout his career.
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Dr. Damián Zaitch (UU)
Damián Zaitch has been a senior lecturer at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht University since 2009. He is currently interested in new forms of cross-border transnational organized crime, state and corporate crime against the environment (food industry, exploitation of natural resources), and innovative qualitative research methods and areas such as virtual ethnography and visual criminology. He coordinates the Erasmus Mundus PhD program in cultural and global criminology in Utrecht.
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