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 two of its five research groups, and also Professor at the Department of Sociology, Utrecht University.

Feel free to contact me should you have any questions.

Interests

  • Geographic/environmental criminology
  • Policing
  • 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

Stijn Ruiter, Ronald van Steden (2021). Politiewerk met bewijskracht. Tijdschrift voor de Politie(4), accepted for publication.

Project

Marleen Gorissen, Chantal J.W. van den Berg, Catrien C.J.H. Bijleveld, Stijn Ruiter, Tamar Berenblum (2021). Online disclosure of sexual victimisation: A systematic review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.

Source Document DOI

Wouter Steenbeek, Stijn Ruiter (2021). Non-spatial and spatial linear regression. In: Elizabeth R. Groff, Cory P. Haberman (Eds.). The Study of Crime and Place: A Methods Handbook. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, accepted for publication.

Nick van Doormaal, Andrew M. Lemieux, Stijn Ruiter, Paul Allin, Craig Spencer (2021). Detecting Wildlife Poaching: A Rigorous Method for Comparing Patrol Strategies using an Experimental Design. Oryx,OnlineFirst.

Project Source Document DOI

Sabine E.M. van Sleeuwen, Stijn Ruiter, Wouter Steenbeek (2021). Right place, right time? Making crime pattern theory time-specific. Crime Science, 10.

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Projects

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All Spatio-temporal Cybercrime Wildlife crime

What Works in Policing: Towards Evidence-based Policing in the Netherlands

A time for a crime

Why do offenders commit crimes where and when they do? Improving on extant theory and empirical research in the geography of crime, this PhD project investigates how offenders’ time-specific knowledge of their environment acquired during their daily routines and the time-varying attractiveness of target areas affect offenders' crime location choices.
A time for a crime

Cybercriminal decision-making

Existing theories assume that offenders make rational decisions, but these theories have rarely been tested experimentally. This project uses ‘honey accounts’, online accounts that have deliberately been rendered vulnerable to hacking, to allow an experimental investigation of cybercriminals’ behavior.
Cybercriminal decision-making

Trust on the Dark Web

Why would anyone engage in risky business with a total stranger? In this project, we analyze how criminals cooperate on Dark Web markets and forums. We use rational choice and game theoretical explanations of individual trust and study effects of reputation, information diffusion and rule enforcement on exchanges in Dark Web criminal networks.
Trust on the Dark Web

Where offenders commit crimes

Why do crimes occur where they do? Answering this question requires an innovative project aimed at understanding offenders' decisions on where to commit crime. Crime takes place where attractive opportunities for crime overlap with awareness spaces of individuals motivated to commit crime.
Where offenders commit crimes

Wildlife crime

Why do poachers commit crimes where and when they do? How can the vast areas of nature reserves most effectively be patrolled by ranger teams. Starting from an environmental criminology perspective, this PhD project investigates poaching problems in South Africa.
Wildlife crime

Contact

  • ruiter@nscr.nl
  • +31 20 598 5427
  • De Boelelaan 1077
    1008BH Amsterdam
  • Enter Vrije Universiteit Initium building at main reception, go to top floor and follow signs to NSCR
  • Working remotely during COVID-19 pandemic
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