I am a Senior Researcher and management team member at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement NSCR, a research institute of the Dutch Research Council NWO. I am program leader of the Evidence-Based Policing research group, and also Professor of Evidence-Based Policing at the Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Feel free to contact me should you have any questions.

Interests

  • Evidence-Based Policing
  • Geographic/environmental criminology
  • Quantitative/Analytical/Computational Sociology
  • Open Science/Open-source

Education

  • PhD in Social Sciences, 2008

    Radboud University Nijmegen

  • MA in Sociology, 2002

    Radboud University Nijmegen

Publications

Danielle Stibbe, Stijn Ruiter, Wouter Steenbeek, Asier Moneva (2025). Rational Choice on a Hacker Forum: The Effect of Risk and Reward Cues on Target Selection for Account Hijacking. Deviant Behavior.

Source Document DOI

Natascha de Leeuw, Samuel Langton, Harold van Voornveld, Koen Kraassenberg, John Duivenvoorden, Stijn Ruiter (2024). After the incident: measuring organizational (internal) police demand. Police Practice and Research.

Project Source Document DOI

Mieke Struik, Valérie Peeck, Vana Hutter, Stijn Ruiter (2024). Evidence-based policing: Een samenspel van politiepraktijk en politiewetenschap. Cahiers Politiestudies, 73(4):73-82.

PDF Project

Roselle P. Jansen, Stijn Ruiter, Ronald van Steden (2024). Crime reporting and victim satisfaction with the police: a large-scale study among victims of crime in the Netherlands. Crime Science, 13.

Project Source Document DOI

Wim Bernasco, Stijn Ruiter, Wouter Steenbeek, Steve van de Weijer (2024). Verdeling van misdaad tussen buurten in Nederlandse gemeenten. Secondant.

Project Source Document

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Contact

  • ruiter@nscr.nl
  • De Boelelaan 1077
    1008BH Amsterdam
  • Enter Vrije Universiteit Initium building at main reception, go to top floor and follow signs to NSCR
  • Monday 09:00 to 18:00
    Wednesday-Friday 09:00 to 18:00