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Gerben Bruinsma
| Prof. dr. Gerben J.N. Bruinsma (1951), born in The Hague, studied sociology and criminology at Utrecht University. After his graduation in 1975 he became lecturer of criminology and penology at the Criminological Institute of the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 1981 he left for the Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy at Twente University at Enschede. In 1985 he was appointed as associate professor in methodology and research methods. In the same year he finished his doctoral dissertation ‘Crime as a social process. A test of the differential association theory in the version of K-D. Opp’. He was co-founder and director of the International Police Institute at the University of Twente and in 1995 he became professor of criminology at that university. From 1999 he has been director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), a national research institute of the National Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and professor of criminology of the faculty of Law of Leiden University (till 2009). Since September 2009 he has been professor of environmental criminology of the Vrije University of Amsterdam. He is the recipient of the first Freda Adler Distinguished International Scholar Award of the Division of International criminology of the American Society of Criminology. He has been editor of various journals and had a great number of advisory and board positions in the field. Bruinsma established and developed a bachelor and master program in criminology at Leiden University in 2001. He published many articles and books on criminological issues like criminological theory, juvenile delinquency, policing, organized crime and, geographic and historic criminology. |
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