Jasper van der Kemp

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Netherlands

Assistant Professor Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Education

A psychologist by training, I became assistant professor at the department of Criminal Law & Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in January 2006 after doing research at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcements’(NSCR) research group on ‘Mobility and Distribution of Crime’ for five years. My PhD research extents from analysing individual offenders’ movements(their journeys-to-crime and mental maps), location choice to the geographical patterns of crime in the criminal careers of offenders. The main focus of his work addresses issues relating to geographical offender profiling and the investigative focus on the modus via. This focus extens to my wor...