Publicaties
Buurtinformatienetwerken en lokale veiligheid : een evaluatiestudie op basis van een mixed-method experimenteel design Universiteit Gent
Buurtinformatienetwerken (BINU+2019s) zijn partnerschappen waarin de politie, buurtbewoners en gemeenten hun krachten bundelen in de strijd tegen criminaliteit. Deze worden vaak opgericht in een buurt vanwege een bezorgdheid over de veiligheid, zoals bij hogere politiecijfers voor diefstallen uit voertuigen, woninginbraak en/of vandalisme. Met deze studie werd nagegaan of BINU+2019s de lokale veiligheid in een buurt verhogen. Dit was in België ...
Online and offline social support deterioration : the effect of financial stress exposure on depressive symptoms Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
Social support is a prominent factor in mental health etiology. According to the social support deterioration model, exposure to chronic stressors may over time erode people's social support, thereby contributing to increases in mental health issues. Although there is mounting evidence indicating the beneficial consequences of online social support, the extent to which social support deterioration takes place in an online context is to date not ...
Evaluating multi-agency working in extremism prevention Universiteit Gent
As stated by an earlier RAN policy paper, multi-agency structures and working processes are crucial for early and effective identification of individuals at-risk, improved information-sharing, joint decision-making, and coordinated action. Multi-Agency Working (MAW) breaks down historical silos between agencies and leads in different cities to cooperation, instead of fragmentation of services. Although practitioners and academics endorse the ...
Theft by finding as a moral commitment problem? Exploring three possible routes to uncooperative choices Universiteit Gent
Introduction: In this paper, we aim to explain through what mechanisms young people have an increased likelihood of making uncooperative choices. Insights from evolutionary informed theorizing and moral psychology are combined under the umbrella of an integrated theoretical framework. We stress the importance of the moral compass as mediator in the relationship between personal, moral, social factors and failures to cooperate. The moral compass ...
The European Crime Prevention Network : position and relevance for policy and practice Universiteit Gent
The EMMA project : first impressions from a realist process evaluation on Multi-Agency Working approaches in the context of preventing violent radicalisation Universiteit Gent
Perceived injustice, perceived group threat and self-reported right-wing violence : an integrated approach Universiteit Gent
The present study seeks to explain individual differences in self-reported politically motivated violence and vandalism, and participation within an extreme right-wing group. While violent extremism is highly debated, few criminological studies explicitly test factors that can trigger violent extremism. The present study addresses this gap by integrating two different frameworks: a perceived injustice and group threat-initiated model and an ...
Interpreting the history of evolutionary biology through a Kuhnian prism : sense or nonsense? Universiteit Gent
Traditionally, Thomas S. KuhnU+2019s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is largely identified with his analysis of the structure of scientific revolutions. Here, we contribute to a minority tradition in the Kuhn literature by interpreting the history of evolutionary biology through the prism of the entire historical developmental model of sciences that he elaborates in The Structure. This research not only reveals a certain match ...
Testing measurement invariance of the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen in a Belgian adult sample Universiteit Gent
The Dirty Dozen (Jonason & Webster, 2010) is a frequently used concise version of the Dark Triad to measure three socially aversive personality traits: Machiavellianism, psychopathy and, narcissism. The present study has examined measurement invariance in a sample of Belgian adults. The present study aims to assess measurement invariance of the Dutch version of the Dirty Dozen measure across gender in a large city-based representative adult ...