Professor Dr Gerben Bruinsma was, from 1999 until August 2014, director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) in Amsterdam, a national research institute of the National Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and, is currently senior researcher of that institute. He is also Professor of Environmental Criminology at VU University of Amsterdam (from 2009). He presently serves as President of the European Society of Criminology. He published in Criminology, Crime and Delinquency, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, the British Journal of Criminology, Policing and the European Journal of Criminology. With David Weisburd, he edited The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
