Babette van Hazebroek
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. B.C.M. van Hazebroek
- Telephone
- 071 5271377
- b.c.m.van.hazebroek@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-6762-3072
Babette van Hazebroek is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.
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.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Criminal Law and Criminology
- Criminology
- Criminology Section A
- Venema S.D., Hazebroek B.C.M. van, Palmen J.M.H. & Nieuwbeerta P. (2026), Understanding the relationship between child visits, pre-prison father-child contact, and recidivism among formerly imprisoned fathers, Criminal Justice and Behavior 53(7): 1035-1053.
- Reef J., Venema S. & Hazebroek B.C.M. van (2026), Aandacht voor vaderschap in detentie. In: Boone M.M., Nieuwbeerta P., Zand E.G. van 't, Voorde J.M. ten & Jagarnathsingh R. (Eds.), Sleutels tot detentie: Lessen uit de wetenschap. Amsterdam: Van Gennep. 171-175.
- Hazebroek B.C.M. van, Domburgh L. van, Blokland A.A.J., Keijser J.W. de, Popma A. & Wermink H.T. (2025), A test of the dual taxonomy explanation of life-course-persistent offending: individual risk, social bonds, and within-individual change in delinquency in children with early police contact, Criminal Justice and Behavior 52(11): 1622-1642.
- Hazebroek B.C.M. van, Domburgh L. van, Keijser J.W. de, Popma A. & Wermink H.T. (2025), Using risk profiles to differentiate between offending trajectories in childhood arrestees, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology 11(1-4): 294-322.
- Hazebroek B.C.M. van & Nieuwbeerta P. (2025), Verandering in de leeftijdscriminaliteitscurve ontrafeld: een multi-geboortecohortstudie naar strafrechtelijke veroordelingen in Nederland, Tijdschrift voor Criminologie 67(4): 249-267.
- Hazebroek B.C.M. van & Nieuwbeerta P. (2024), Verandering in (relatieve) kansen op een veroordeling van verschillende migrantengroepen in Nederland, 2006 tot 2017, Proces: Tijdschrift voor Strafrechtspleging 103(1): 8-24.
- Berghuis M.L., Nieuwbeerta P., Palmen J.M.H. Sentse M., Hazebroek B. van & Ginneken E.F.J.C. van (2022), Visitation patterns and post-release offending: Exploring variations in the timing, rate, and consistency of prison visits, Journal of Criminal Justice 81: 1-10 (101904).
- Hazebroek B.C.M. van (27 May 2021), Understanding delinquent development from childhood into early adulthood in early onset offenders (Dissertatie. Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology , Faculty of Law, Leiden University) Meijers-reeks no. MI-367. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Keijser J.W. de & Popma A., Wermink H.T. & Domburgh L. van.
- Hazebroek B.C.M. van, Wermink H.T., Domburgh L. van, Keijser J.W. de, Hoeve M. & Popma A. (2019), Biosocial studies of antisocial behavior: A systematic review of interactions between peri/prenatal complications, psychophysiological parameters, and social risk factors, Aggression and Violent Behavior 47: 169-188.
- Hazebroek B.C.M. van, Blokland A.A.J., Wermink H.T., Keijser J.W. de, Popma A. & Domburgh L. van (2019), Delinquent Development Among Early-Onset Offenders: Identifying and Characterizing Trajectories Based on Frequency Across Types of Offending, Criminal Justice and Behavior 46(11): 1542-1565.