Short bio
Prof. Dr. Lieven Pauwels is professor of criminology and teaches courses on the etiology of crime, crime prevention, statistics, youth criminology and biological anthropology. He has conducted research on adolescent offending and victimization, troublesome youth group involvement, violent extremism. His work involves the evaluation and testing of theories on crime causation, crime prevention and the use of surveys and crime statistics.
Work details
- EMAIL: lieven.pauwels@ugent.be
- TELEPHONE: +32 9 264 68 37
- TELEPHONE SECRETARIAT: +32 9 264 69 30
- ADRESS: Universiteitstraat 4, Ghent, Belgium
- ORCID: 0000-0002-4491-6374
Selected societal impact activities
- 28/03/2019 – EUCPN Working Group Conference Expert Meeting on the concept of crime prevention
- 27/11/2018 – Brussels – Blootstelling aan gewelddadig extremisme en politiek / religieus geweld. Een verhaal van differentiële ontvankelijkheid en situationele resistentie. Policy Lab ‘Preventie van radicalisering in de Europese steden’
- 13/09/2019 – Leuven – Een academische kijk op de ontwikkelingen in het preventie- en veiligheidsbeleid. Studiedag 25 jaar preventie in het lokaal veiligheidsbeleid.
Selected media
Selected events
Expertise
- Rule-breaking and victimization
- Neighborhood effects
- Evolution of norms and self-control
- Crime prevention
Selected projects
- International Self-Reported Delinquency Study (ISRD3)
- 2012-2014 – Radicalization and the use of social media (RADIMED Belspo / Biza)
- 2009-2015 – SPAN-Project
- Selection of supervised PhDs
- Ben Heylen ‘The Dark Side of Humanity: the evolutionary roots of contemporary prejudice and bias motivated behaviors’
- Maarten De Waele: ‘The use of violence by youngsters in far-right groups in Flanders’
- Anjuli Van Damme: Trust in police procedural justice. Testing and elaborating Procedural Justice Theory
Selected publications
- Pauwels, L.J.R. (2018). The conditional effects of self-control in Situational Action Theory.
A preliminary test using a randomized scenario study. Deviant Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2018.1479920 - Pauwels, L.J.R., Svensson, R. (2017) How robust is the moderating effect of extremist beliefs on the relationship between self-control and violent extremism? Crime & Delinquency (Online first) DOI: 10.1177/0011128716687757 | First Published January 10, 2017
- Bruinsma, G.J.N., Pauwels, L.J.R. (2017). The Added Value of the Criminology of Place to the Research Agenda of Environmental Criminology: Core Propositions for Unexplained Mechanisms, pp 67-95. In: Weisburd, D., Eck, J (Eds.). Connecting crimes to place. New directions in theory and policy. The Advanced Theory Book Series New Jersey New Brunswick, Transaction Publishers.