Hanneke Palmen is Associate Professor (ius promovendi) at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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Hanneke Palmen is an Associate Professor (ius promovendi) at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. After completing her training in developmental psychology (Utrecht University), Hanneke obtained her PhD in 2009 from the Institute of Education and Pedagogy at Utrecht University with her dissertation "Friendship and aggression in elementary school." She subsequently worked at the Netherlands Institute for Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), where she collaborated on the TransAM study, a longitudinal panel study among young adults in Amsterdam.

Hanneke's research interests focus on the social context of behavior. Within prison research, she has focused on the importance of personal social networks during and after incarceration, and on receiving (personal and professional) visitors in detention.

Her expertise lies in leading large-scale longitudinal research projects, such as the Life in Custody Study and the Food in Custody Study, in which she studied the living- and working climate during incarceration. Within these studies, Hanneke supervised various PhD projects.

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