Members
The consortium brings together 21 professors and their staff from different disciplines in six departments working inter-disciplinary on security, crime and deviance related topics in local, national, European and international contexts. In close cooperation with several Ghent University based research institutes the consortium combines available knowledge and expertise at Ghent University.
Prof. Dr. Tom Vander Beken
Expertise: Criminal justice system, incarceration, environmental criminology
Prof. Dr. Gert Vermeulen
Expertise: International and European penal law, privacy
Prof. Dr. Freya Vander Laenen
Expertise: Forensic social welfare and forensic mental health care, professional confidentiality, drugs: demand
Prof. Dr. Lieven Pauwels
Expertise: Research on crime causation, questionnaire construction, evaluation of crime and radicalization prevention / initiatives
Prof. Dr. Marc Cools
Expertise: (Historical) criminology, intelligence services and private security
Prof. Dr. Wim Hardyns
Expertise: Big data, security & technology, space, place & crime
Prof. Dr. Jelle Janssens
Expertise: Organised crime, transitional justice, criminology of war
Prof. Dr. Wendy De Bondt
Expertise: Penal law and special penal law, International and European penal law collaboration, juvenile law and children’s rights
Prof. Dr. Antoinette Verhage
Expertise: Policing, approach of financial crime, deontology
Prof. Dr. Eva Lievens
Expertise: Cybercrime, protection of minors, privacy & data protection
Prof. Dr. Ellen Desmet
Expertise: Migration law, human rights, anthropology of law
CESSMIR, GRILI, The Migration Law Research Group, HRC
Prof. Dr. Wouter Vanderplasschen
Expertise: Orthopedagogy, (drug)addiction, recovery
Prof. Dr. Stijn Vandevelde
Expertise: (Clinical) orthopedagogy, behavioural and emotional disorders, forensic orthopedagogy
Prof. Dr. Kurt Audenaert
Expertise: Brain-behavior interaction, neurolaw, neuroscience on human interaction
Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop
Expertise: International Security, European Common Security and Defense Policy
Prof. Dr. Charlotte Colman
Expertise: (Drug)policy assessment, alternative measures for offenders with a drug problem, recovery and desistance
Prof. Dr. Tom Decorte
Expertise: Drug(policy), critical criminology, research methodology
Prof. Dr. Willem Debeuckelaere
Expertise: Privacy, Security
Prof. Dr. Olga Petintseva
Expertise: Youth justice and social exclusion, critical and cultural criminology, qualitative research methods
Prof. Dr. Tom Balthazar
Expertise: Health law, Criminal Policy
Prof. Dr. Christophe Vandeviver
Expertise: Geography of crime and crime control, crime science, sexual violence, quantitative research methods
Dr. Noël Klima
Expertise: (Security) Research policy, risk management, P/CVE, societal impact, interdisciplinarity
Dr. Courtney Marsh
