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Stijn Ruiter
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Criminologist/Sociologist, NSCR/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; board member energy coop DE Ramplaan 🇪🇺
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New study tests a core idea in crime pattern theory: do burglars strike along the paths they travel between familiar places—or only near their activity nodes?
Analysing 450 burglaries in The Hague, @toby-davies.bsky.social and I show they do both.
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The Roads Between Nodes: How Travel Paths Affect Burglary Location Choices - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Journal of Quantitative Criminology - Crime pattern theory stresses the importance of offender activity spaces for understanding where crime occurs. Activity spaces comprise both frequently visited...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Interested in becoming a member? It's free and open to anyone interested in helping foster and encourage practices that embrace openness, integrity and reproducibility in criminology research. See: esc-enoc.github.io/join.html
Join us – European Network for Open Criminology
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October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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🚨 It's been a long time in the making, but I'm happy it's finally out!

Standing on the shoulders of giants, in this preprint we propose an avenue for theoretical development in the field of environmental (cyber)criminology with practical applications for crime analysis.

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The title page of the preprint. Title: The Topology of Cyberspace and Cybercrime Journeys: A Framework for Analyzing Online Offender Mobility Authors: Asier Moneva, Stijn Ruiter, and Wim Bernasco Abstract: This paper introduces a novel framework for analyzing online offender mobility. Drawing on multidisciplinary insights, we extend two established criminological models for studying offline offending—the geometry of crime and crime journeys—by adapting their core concepts to cyberspace and developing a topology in which the cyber place is defined and becomes the unit of analysis. Just as offenders travel before, during, and after committing crime offline, we argue they also undertake trips before, during, and after committing cybercrime, and that like offline journeys these cybercrime journeys comprise identifiable and measurable components. We further distinguish between human journeys (what offenders perceive) and data journeys (what happens to the information they transmit). We explicitly demonstrate how concepts from the geometry of crime and crime journeys translate from offline to online crime and mobility. This approach enables the systematic formulation of research questions and the measurement of behavioral patterns, facilitating the generation and accumulation of knowledge on cybercrime offending. The paper illustrates the framework’s theoretical relevance within environmental criminology and its practical application for cybercrime analysis through concrete examples. Schematic representation of a cybercrime journey. Hindu-Arabic numerals represent the sequence of cyber places visited by the user, while Roman numerals indicate the sequence of infrastructure nodes traversed by the data.
September 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Beginning my journey to Athens for #ESC / #Eurocrim! Tonight I head to Brussels, where my brother will join me for the rest of the trip, just like in past years. A tradition we truly cherish.
August 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Tim Verlaan and I just published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology about our pre-registered quasi-experimental evaluation study of a place-based policing intervention in Amsterdam. doi.org/10.1007/s112... #ebp
Evaluating place-based policing in Amsterdam - Journal of Experimental Criminology
Objectives Evaluate the impact of a place-based, community and problem-oriented policing intervention in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Methods This evaluation is guided by the EMMIE framework, and its m...
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June 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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We finally also have a Dutch Crime Severity Index (CSI), available online: nscr.nl/de-nederland...
De Crime Severity Index (CSI)
De openbare en breed toepasbare Nederlandse Crime Severity Index (CSI) is een instrument om criminaliteit op basis van ernst te rangschikken.
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June 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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De Nederlandse Crime Severity Index (CSI), een nieuwe manier om criminaliteit te rangschikken, nu online: nscr.nl/de-nederland...
De Crime Severity Index (CSI)
De openbare en breed toepasbare Nederlandse Crime Severity Index (CSI) is een instrument om criminaliteit op basis van ernst te rangschikken.
nscr.nl
June 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Happy Europe Day #EU
May 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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#prutser
April 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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According to Heliyon, an open access journal from Cell Press @cp-heliyon.bsky.social, I am an expert on ovarian cancer. My wife can attest I know very little about ovaries, and I am trying to avoid cancer too.
March 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Cybercrime decision-making PhD candidate Danielle Stibbe has published another pre-registered online field experiment in Deviant Behavior: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Kick-off meeting SCRIPT-project: www.nwo.nl/en/projects/...
January 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Mooi nieuw resultaat van samenwerking politie en wetenschap: met collega Vana Hutter en twee bestuursleden van de SEBP-NL, Mieke Struik en Valérie Peeck, publiceerden we in Cahiers Politiestudies de bijdrage 'Evidence-Based Policing: Een samenspel van politiepraktijk en politiewetenschap'.
December 28, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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Super excited to share that PhD candidate Natascha de Leeuw has published her first paper in Police Practice and Research. It's on measuring internal police demand, which we wrote together with coauthors from Netherlands Police. #ebp
Wanna know more? See: doi.org/10.1080/1561...
December 28, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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Discover the next big thing in sci-fi! My friend Humberto just launched an epic Kickstarter with amazing graphics. Don’t miss your chance to support it. #Kickstarter #SciFi

#PHOTOTAXIS

seven planets / seven racers / seven stories / ONE winner

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...
November 6, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Excited to share that our PhD candidate Roos Jansen just got her first paper published in Crime Science.
It's on satisfaction with police among crime-reporting victims.

doi.org/10.1186/s401...
Crime reporting and victim satisfaction with the police
October 17, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Wil jij weten hoe crime scripting werkt, voor wie en onder welke omstandigheden? Heb je kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve skills? Lijkt het je leuk maatschappelijk relevant interdisciplinair onderzoek te doen?

Dan ben je wellicht de promovendus die we zoeken!

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Promovendus Onderzoeksproject SCRIPT
Het NSCR is op zoek naar een gemotiveerde promovendus voor onderzoek binnen het NWO-project SCRIPT. Wil jij meer weten over hoe de methode crime scripting werkt, voor wie en onder welke omstandigheden...
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October 15, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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Bye bye Bucharest!

Now on the nighttrain from Bucharest to Vienna

but oh irony...

cannot continue by train after Budapest due to weather extremes that are most probably caused by climate change...
September 16, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Het programma is rond!
#NSCR organiseert samen met #SEBP-NL op 26 september in Den Haag de conferentie 'Evidence-Based Policing in de Praktijk'. Kijk op ebpconferentie.nl voor het programma en aanmelding.
Evidence-Based Policing in de Praktijk
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September 11, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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On my way to #eurocrim2024 in Bucharest. First to my brother's in Brussels. We will do this exciting trip together, so expect to play many chess games over the coming days
September 8, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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Just published another scoping review from our evidence-based policing research program together with Sam Langton.

doi.org/10.1186/s401...
January 17, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Nieuwe publicatie met Tim Verlaan en Sam Langton over reactieve politie-inzet op straat en de grote variatie tussen de verschillende basisteams in het Tijdschrift voor de Politie. www.websitevoordepolitie.nl/content/uplo...
January 3, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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How should we operationalize deployment time in police calls for service?
Read all about it in the latest publication from our Evidence-Based Policing #ebp research program at the NSCR.
crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
December 19, 2023 at 5:03 PM