Paul Nieuwbeerta
Professor of Criminology
- Name
- Prof.dr. P. Nieuwbeerta
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 7642
- p.nieuwbeerta@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5134-3175
Paul Nieuwbeerta is full Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Leiden University since 2009.
Paul Nieuwbeerta is full professor in Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University since 2009. He teaches courses in the Criminology bachelor program and the various Criminology master programs in Leiden.
He received his Ph.D. (1995) in Sociology from Nijmegen University. His doctoral and post-doctoral research (until 2000) comprised large-scale cross-national data projects on social inequality and voting behaviour in democratic countries.
He started doing criminological research at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in 2000, and was appointed as professor of Sociology (one day/week) at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Utrecht University at the chair ‘Theoretical and empirical analyses of societal effects of Criminal Justice interventions’ from 2006 until 2016.
He published a large number of books and papers in several area’s of criminology, e.g. on (international) crime victimization, criminal careers, homicide and prisons. Over the years his main research field became Life Course Criminology and Prison Research with a focus on the intended and unintended effects of imprisonment.
He was initiator and co-PI of several large scale data collections, e.g. the ‘Dutch Homicide Monitor’, the ‘Crime Career and Life Course Study (CCLS)’. His current projects involve the ‘The Prison Project’, a nation-wide large research project examining the intended and unintended consequences of imprisonment in The Netherlands and the ‘Life in Custody Study (LIC)’, a nation-wide study on the lives of all detainees in Dutch prisons.
Paul Nieuwbeerta received the Excellence Research Award (2017) of the International Corrections and Prison Association (ICPA), and the Thorsten Sellin & Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award (2019) of the American Society of Criminology (ASC).
His research is part of the research programme Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Effectivity of the Faculty of Law of Leiden University.
Professor of Criminology
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Strafrecht & Criminologie
- Criminologie
- Nieuwbeerta P. (30 November 2012). Naar een praktijk van evidence based strafrechtspleging. Een onderzoeksprogramma naar de oplegging, uitvoering en effecten van straffen. Leiden. [inaugural address].
- Blokland A.A.J. & Nieuwbeerta P. (30 November 2001), Patronen van Criminaliteit over de Levensloop [NOSMO Methodologendag]. NOSMO Methodologendag. Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Blokland A.A.J. & Nieuwbeerta P. (8 September 2001), Life-long Criminal Careers in the Netherlands: Recidivism and Desistence [First annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology]. First annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology. Lausanne. [lecture].