Hester de Boer
PhD candidate
- Name
- H. de Boer
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- h.de.boer@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0157-3970
Hester de Boer is working as a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University.
Hester de Boer is working as a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University. She completed her bachelor Child and Educational Studies and the master programmes Global Criminology and Gender Studies at Utrecht University. During her master programme she was an intern at Bureau Clara Wichmann. After her studies, she worked at Bureau Beke as a researcher for two years.
Research
Hester conducts a comparative criminal justice research on the differences in prison populations between the Netherlands and Belgium. The research is part of the research programme Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Effectivity.
PhD candidate
- Faculty of Law
- Inst of Criminal Law and Criminology
- Criminology
- Boer H. de, Nuyts O.M.J., Boone M.M., Wingerden S.G.C. van & Beyens K. (2025), Why do detention rates rise or fall?: A statistical and document analysis of the diverging Dutch and Belgian detention population trends between 2000 and 2020, European Journal of Criminology : .
- Boer H. de, Wingerden S.G.C. van & Boone M.M. (2024), De invloed van opsporings- en vervolgingsbeleid op de Nederlandse gevangenispopulatietrend: een diepgaande analyse van de omvang van de gevangenispopulatie tussen 2000 en 2020, Tijdschrift voor Criminologie 66(1): 25-45.
- Boone M.M. & Boer H. de (2024), De gevangenis als spiegel van de samenleving: Hoe maatschappelijke onrust ook invloed heeft op de omvang en samenstelling van de detentiepopulatie, Justitiële Verkenningen 50(4 - Onrust is van alle tijden. 50 jaar Justitiële verkenningen): 62-79.