Bram de Heide is a PhD candidate at Leiden University's Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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Bram de Heide has been a PhD candidate at Leiden University's Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology since 1 October 2023. He completed both his bachelor’s degree in Criminology and a master’s degree in Forensic Criminology at Leiden University. During his master’s studies, Bram wrote a thesis on the varying predictive validity of a risk assessment tool for reoffending within subgroups of a sample of juvenile delinquents. After graduating, he worked as a researcher for four years, including two years at the Academische Werkplaats Risicojeugd (AWRJ) and two years at University of Applied Sciences Utrecht's Lectoraat Jeugd.

At the AWRJ, Bram researched an alternative form of small-scale youth detention, transforensic care and reducing the use of seclusion in residential youth care. At the Lectoraat Jeugd, he researched primary school teachers’ inclination to report signs of child abuse and the potential ways to increase knowledge and skills regarding the identification and reporting of child abuse within the curricula of several applied science majors.

Research

Bram’s PhD research focuses on the dietary preferences of detainees and how those preferences vary between detainees imprisoned across Dutch penitentiary institutions. The dissertation will also examine how aligning food provision with detainees’ dietary preferences relates to how they experience imprisonment and how they behave during their prison sentence.