Arjan Blokland
Professor Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Name
- Prof.dr.mr. A.A.J. Blokland
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- a.a.j.blokland@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0366-2205
Arjan Blokland is appointed as professor of Criminology & Criminal justice at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.
Arjan Blokland is appointed as professor of Criminology & Criminal justice at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology from September 2010.
He worked as a police officer with the Rotterdam-Rijnmond police force until 1996. He studied Criminal Law and Social Psychology at the University of Utrecht. In 2005 he received his PhD (cum laude) from the Utrecht University for a dissertation on the criminal careers of a cohort of offenders convicted in 1977. Since 2005 he is a (senior)researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement ( NSCR). In 2006 he was awarded a VENI-grand for his work on the development of criminal behavior over the life course. In 2010 he also received a Investment Subsidy NWO Medium.
His research focuses on developmental and life course criminology, (juvenile)sexoffenders and evolutionary explanations of crime.
Professor Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Strafrecht & Criminologie
- Criminologie
- Senior-onderzoeker
- senior researcher