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
- Blokland A.A.J. (13 November 2002), Long-term criminal careers: recidivism and desistance over 23 years. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. Chicago. [lecture].
- Blokland A.A.J. (24 April 2002), De haren wel, maar ook de streken? Patronen van crimineel gedrag over de levensloop. NWO conferentie 'Bessensap'. Floriade. [lecture].
- Blokland A.A.J. (30 May 2002), Leeftijd en criminalitiet. Sociale Wetenchappen. Amsterdam. [lecture].
- Blokland A.A.J. (4 September 2002), Criminal behavior through life; testing life course explanations of the lifespan variation in risk of criminal behavior. 2nd Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology. Toledo. [lecture].
- 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].
- Blokland A.A.J. & Wijk A.P. (14 June 2001), The Etiology of Sexual Delinquency within an Evolutionary Framework. HBES Conference. London. [lecture].
- Senior-onderzoeker
- senior researcher