The Rotterdam Criminology Blog is the blog of the Criminology Department of the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. The authors are criminologists working at our department, who blog in a personal capacity.
The blog offers a platform to discuss relevant topics on crime and criminology. Posts include thoughts and comments on various forms of media, including news reports, books, articles, and films; responses to developments in criminal, social and socio-legal policies in the Netherlands; and preliminary research findings. The website also provides links to more in-depth papers that the authors have published elsewhere. This blog covers a wide range of different topics and research areas relevant to criminology, which are organized under the following themes:
(1) Media and Culture
(2) Street and The City
(3) Technology and Cybercrime
(4) Migration and Multiculturalism
(5) Crimes of the Powerful
(6) Gangs and Organized Crime
(7) Radicalization and Terrorism
(8) Youth, Criminal Justice and Victimization
Editorial Team
Gwendolyn Geuze (MSc, PhD candidate)
Anna Merz (MA, PhD candidate)
Ruben Timmerman (MA, LLM, PhD candidate)
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From 14 – 16 May 2023, some of our criminology students and colleagues attended the Common Study Programme in Critical Criminology hosted at the University of Hamburg (Germany). The Common Study Sessions are organised twice a year by variating participating universities and are an opportunity for […]
As part of the criminology master program, students write a blog post on central themes of the course 'Urban Issues, Culture and Crime'. The best posts are selected for our blog. This post is by Julie le Sage who discusses the consequences of modern urbanism for Rotterdam's urban skaters.
Since 2019, Lebanon's financial crisis is taking the headlines of major newspapers. In this blog post, PhD candidate Cybele Atme outlines, in line with many historical analysis, how Lebanon's contemporary financial system has been shaped by colonialism and foreign interests.