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.
Coordination
Noël Klima
Expertise: (Security) Research policy, risk management, P/CVE, societal impact, interdisciplinarity
Spokesman
Tom Vander Beken
Expertise: Criminal justice system, incarceration, environmental criminology
Team
Courtney Marsh
Expertise: Engaged Learning, Communication, Police research, Qualitative Research
Jasmine De Backer
Expertise: Societal impact, Interdisciplinarity, Engaged learning
Members
Gert Vermeulen
Expertise: International and European penal law, privacy
Lieven Pauwels
Expertise: Research on crime causation, questionnaire construction, evaluation of crime and radicalization prevention / initiatives
Wim Hardyns
Expertise: Big data, security & technology, space, place & crime
Jelle Janssens
Expertise: Organised crime, transitional justice, criminology of war
Wendy De Bondt
Expertise: Penal law and special penal law, International and European penal law collaboration, juvenile law and children’s rights
Antoinette Verhage
Expertise: Policing, approach of financial crime, deontology
Eva Lievens
Expertise: Cybercrime, protection of minors, privacy & data protection
Ellen Desmet
Expertise: Migration law, human rights, anthropology of law
CESSMIR, GRILI, The Migration Law Research Group, HRC
Wouter Vanderplasschen
Expertise: Orthopedagogy, (drug)addiction, recovery
Stijn Vandevelde
Expertise: (Clinical) orthopedagogy, behavioural and emotional disorders, forensic orthopedagogy
Kurt Audenaert
Expertise: Brain-behavior interaction, neurolaw, neuroscience on human interaction
Sven Biscop
Expertise: International Security, European Common Security and Defense Policy
GIIS
Charlotte Colman
Expertise: (Drug)policy assessment, alternative measures for offenders with a drug problem, recovery and desistance
Tom Decorte
Expertise: Drug(policy), critical criminology, research methodology
Tom Balthazar
Expertise: Health law, Criminal Policy
Christophe Vandeviver
Expertise: Geography of crime and crime control, crime science, sexual violence, quantitative research methods
Pieter Leloup
Expertise: Plural policing, private security, historical criminology
Griet Verhenneman
Expertise: Privacy, data protection, artificial intelligence
Louis Favril
Expertise: Prison, mental health, suicide, drug use, harm reduction, offender reintegration
Stéphanie De Coensel
Expertise: Counterterrorism, radicalization, terrorism
Willem Debeuckelaere
Expertise: Privacy, Security
Former Members
Freya Vander Laenen
Mahsa Shabani
Olga Petintseva
Nina Persak
Brice De Ruyver
