Layla van Wieringen is a Researcher/Tutor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs for the research group Physical Violence and Public Order. Her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of extremism and other potentially harmful ideologies within a family context.

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Layla van Wieringen is a Researcher/Tutor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs for the research group Physical Violence and Public Order. Her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of extremism and other potentially harmful ideologies within a family context. 

Layla completed her master's degree Crisis and Security Management at Leiden University in 2019. She previously obtained a postgraduate degree in Investigative and Legal Psychology at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) in Turin, Italy, and a bachelor degree in Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests include processes of radicalization, family dynamics, extremism, sects and cults, and criminal families.