Babette van Hazebroek is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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Babette van Hazebroek is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Leiden University’s Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology and Academic Coordinator of the Comparative Criminal Justice master’s track.

After completing a bachelor’s degree in Criminology and master’s degrees in Life-Course Criminology and Child and Adolescent Psychology (cum laude) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, she joined Leiden University as a lecturer in 2014. Between 2016 and 2021, she conducted PhD research on offending from childhood into early adulthood among individuals who first came into contact with the police before age 12.

Research

Babette’s research focuses on the development of offending across the life course. She studies developmental patterns and the role of risk and protective factors in explaining differences between these patterns.

Her current research examines differences in offending between birth cohorts and historical changes in the age-crime curve. Her work draws on longitudinal data and large-scale administrative registers.

Her research is part of the program Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Effectivity.

Teaching

Within Comparative Criminal Justice, she coordinates and teaches CCJ Research Methods and Research Proposal. She also coordinates and teaches Sociological Criminology and supervises bachelor’s and master’s students and PhD candidates.

Publications