Chairholder & Researchers

Wouter Stol
(1958) After his police education, between 1977 and 1981, Wouter has been working as a chief of police in Amsterdam until 1992. Between 1984 and 1989, he studied Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in Sociology of Labour and Organizations (with special attention to the police organization and ICT). Between 1992 and 1995, he was a researcher at the Free University (Amsterdam), completing a PhD thesis on police patrol work and the use of information technology. In 1995 he started working at In-pact, a police consultancy in the field of police and ICT, where he established a research team of social scientists carrying out studies on law enforcement and ICT, police management and policing youth. In 2000 he and his team moved to the Police Academy. From september 2004 until September 2008 he has been Chairholder in Safety and Security at NHL University of Applied Sciences. Today Wouter Stol is chairholder in Cybersafety at NHL University of Applied Sciences and the Police Academy and professor in Police Studies at the Open University. Main theme in his research is ‘safety and ICT’.

Wouter Stol has written about a hundred publications, including several books. In 1996 he initiated a series of publications in the field of police studies: the 'Police Academy Research Series' (in Dutch; 22 volumes to date). In 2002 he established the Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid (Journal of Safety), which is a peer reviewed journal in Dutch (with summaries in English). He is the founder of the Dutch Society for Integrated Safety (‘Nederlandse Vereniging voor Integrale Veiligheid’, www.nviv.nl). In 2006 he started the international comparative observational study ‘Policing the Streets in Europe’, a collaboration between Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Norway and The Netherlands, in which five universities and two police academies participate. He is an editorial staff member of the above mentioned Journal of Safety and of the Belgian journal Panopticon.

Rutger Leukfeldt
Rutger Leukfeldt (1982) has been a junior researcher at the NHL University since 2007. His field of research is cybercrime. During his Safety and Security course at the NHL University he published about de cooperation between police, ambulances and fire brigades in everyday situations (Research projects). For his bachelor thesis he carried out a research about police detectives and their use of information. During his work as a researcher at the Chair, Rutger published several articles and co conducted several pioneering studies in the field of cybersafety. Besides his work as a researcher Rutger follows a Master course in Community Safety at the University of Leicester. At this moment he is working on his master thesis. For this thesis he conducts research on e-fraud offenders.

Joyce Kerstens
(1965) studied Social Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen and graduated in 1995. After her graduation she worked as a researcher/advisor for B&A Group in The Hague and IOWO and ITS both associated with Radboud University. Now Joyce Kerstens (1965) is a senior researcher at NHL Universities Cybersafety Chair. So far, her research activities have mainly focused on policy and evaluation research in the field of safety and security. She for example conducted research on the effects of CCTV and preventive body-search on public safety. Besides her work as a researcher she is also a lecturer at the Bachelor course in Safety & Security at NHL University. Thereby she supervises students in several research oriented courses. In september 2009 she started a research project on Youth and Cybersafety on which she aims to promote. Joyce Kerstens is board member of the Dutch Society for Integrated Safety (NVIV).

Marika Toutenhoofd-Visser
Marika Toutenhoofd-Visser (1972) is senior researcher at the Chair Cybersafety. She carries out research concerning CCTV, youth crime statistics and public violence. She also teaches research methods at the bachelor course in Safety & Security and coaches students in doing research. She has been a researcher with the Dutch Police force (region Friesland), the municipilaty of Lelystad, and the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Dutch Society for Integrated Safety (NVIV) and of the Dutch Society of Criminology (NVK).

Miranda Domenie
Miranda Domenie (1974) has been a researcher at the NHL University of Applied Sciences since 2000. She conducted several large-scale survey studies and other research projects. Since 2005, she is a researcher at the Chair Cybersafety. Since then she has conducted research on the workload of cybercrime within the Dutch Police. Hence, she leads the first National victim survey on cybercrime. \ She is a member of the Dutch Society for Integrated Safety (NVIV).

S. (Sander) Veenstra, MSc.
Sander Veenstra (1986) has been a researcher at the NHL University since 2008. He studied Safety and Security at the NHL University (BSc) and Criminology at the University of Leicester (MSc with distinction). His main field of research is youth and cybersafety. Currently he works on a comprehensive national research program on online threats to youth. In addition to this research program he works on and/or is the (co-)author of several books and articles about the safety of youth in cyberspace (e.g. Veenstra, Kerstens & Stol, 2009; Veenstra, Vandebosch, & Walrave, in review). Furtermore, Sander conducts research on the way cybercrime cases are dealt with in the Dutch criminal justice system. Based on previous research projects he was involved in, Sander published about, for example, the registration of cybercrime cases within the Dutch police (e.g. Veenstra, Toutenhoofd & Stol, 2010).