Sigrid van Wingerden PhD LLM is Associate Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology at Leiden University. She is also head of the Criminology department.

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Sigrid van Wingerden PhD LLM is Associate Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology at Leiden University. She is also chair of the Criminology department.

Sigrid van Wingerden studied law and criminology at Leiden University. In 2006, she obtained her Master’s degree in Criminal Law, and graduated cum laude in criminology with a specialization in Security Policy & Law Enforcement. She conducted the research for her thesis on the sentencing of homicide offenders at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR).

In 2007, she was appointed as a PhD fellow at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, conducting research on sentencing. In 2014, she defended her dissertation, 'Sentencing in the Netherlands. Taking risk-related offender characteristics into account'. Thereafter she continued her teaching and research as an Assistant Professor.

Sigrid teaches courses in the Bachelor's and Master's programs in Criminology. She lectures on the courses 'The Criminal Justice System in Practice', 'Prevention & Punishment', and 'Courts & Sentencing'. She also supervises master's students in their theses.

Sigrid's research interests focus on decision-making by judges and other actors in the criminal justice system and on public opinion regarding sentencing. Her research is conducted within the Criminal Justice research program: Societally Effective Criminal Justice.

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