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Seminar 'Public Prosecution Services and the Rule of Law in Europe'30 May 2022On Thursday 16 June, a seminar will be held on 'Public Prosecution Services and the Rule of Law in Europe' with the subtitle 'Conceptions and Misconce...
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Care conferences for long-term forensic patients: demand greater than supply10 May 2022Care conferences for long-term residents (15+ years) in forensic mental health care are widely appreciated by all parties involved. Research by Leiden...
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers21 April 2022Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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Paul Nieuwbeerta affiliated professor at Statistics Netherlands14 April 2022From April 2022, Professor Paul Nieuwbeerta will be working one day a week as affiliated professor for Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de...
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NWO Veni for Linda Geven for research into false confessions12 April 2022An NWO Veni application by Linda Geven, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, has been honoured. She will spend the ne...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant11 April 2022Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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A ‘confused person’ is more of a misunderstood person08 April 2022The person who cried out at Dam Square on Remembrance Day in 2010. For Michiel van der Wolf this marked the rise of a new phenomenon: that of ‘confuse...
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Miranda Boone on problems with virtual court hearings during coronavirus crisis21 February 2022The coronavirus crisis had a major impact on the judicial system in the Netherlands: courts closed at the start of the pandemic and instead held virtu...
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Citizens felt less heard in virtual court hearings during coronavirus crisis18 February 2022
Quite a lot went wrong during the virtual hearings that courts held during the coronavirus crisis. Researchers from three universities, including Leid...
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PhD research: Welfare benefits reduce criminal behaviour substantially18 January 2022Receiving welfare benefits has a major impact on criminal behaviour. This has been demonstrated by Marco Stam, who defended his thesis on 20 January 2...
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Urban criminologist to research how safe the people of Leiden feel25 October 2021Since the beginning of September, urban criminologist Marianne Franken has been the linchpin of a special partnership between Leiden University, the m...
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Radboud University and Leiden University research ethnic profiling19 October 2021A research team from Radboud University and Leiden University, led by senior researchers Prof. Masja van Meeteren (RU/UL), Dr Paul Mutsaers (RU) and P...
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Urban criminologist for Leiden: municipality, police and university join forces07 October 2021Since 1 September 2021, the city of Leiden has had a dedicated urban criminologist. In a PhD project lasting four years, Marianne Franken will be stud...
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence04 October 2021In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate...
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Children’s contact with police no clear precursor for criminal career21 September 2021Children who come into contact with the police are not destined to become long-term offenders. This appears from research conducted by Babette van Haz...