dr. Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg, PhD

• ESC | Lausanne | Board member ESC working group Cybercrime | 2018-01-01 - present
• IIRCC | East Lansing | Steering committee | 2018-01-01 - present
• Nederlands Studiecentrum Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving | Amsterdam | NSCR Alab-fellow + lid cybercluster | 2018-01-01 - present
• Springer | Zwitserland | Editorial Board Book Series "Crime and Justice in Digital Society" | 2019-01-01 - present
• NWO | Den Haag | Adviseur | 2022-01-01 - present
• WODC | Den Haag | Adviseur | 2022-01-01 - present
• NvC | Leiden | voorzitten NvC divisie Cybercrime | 2022-10-01 - present
• HvA | Amsterdam | onderzoek P&W project Een structureel beter begrip van cybercriminaliteit | 2022-11-01 - present
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Amsterdam | lid Commissie Ethiek Rechtswetenschappelijk en Criminologie Onderzoek (CERCO) | 2023-02-01 - 2026-02-01
• Sarasota Cybersecurity - University of South Florida | Tampa (FL) | Affiliated Faculty | 2023-03-13 - present
• Politie (THTC) | Driebergen | Member of the Cyber Offender Prevention: Academia (ACOP) network | 2023-04-01 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily

My teaching and research in criminology mainly focuses on cybercrime and related topics.

Dr. Marleen Weulen Kranenbarg is assistant professor in Criminology at the Department of Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. In 2018 she completed her dissertation research entitled: ‘Cyber offenders versus traditional offenders: an empirical comparison’ at the NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the study of Crime and Law Enforcement). Her current research focuses mainly on four themes around cybercrime offending and prevention: 1. differences with traditional crime 2. the role of online and offline peers 3. the role of (IT) education and 4. ethical hacking and positive use of IT skills. For this fourth research line she recently received a prestigious personal VENI grant from NWO (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) for a 5-year research project entitled ‘Choosing the good side: life-course, cultural, and situational factors that lead to non-criminal hacking.’

I published two text books about Cybercrime. One in Dutch "Basisboek Criminologie" and one in English "Essentials in Cybercrime". See this page of the publisher: Publisher webpage

Short information about main projects:

- VENI: Audio interview about my recently started VENI-research (in Dutch):

CCV Secondant interview: ETHISCHE HACKERS HEBBEN EEN STERKE MORAAL

 - UK Home Office OTTO project Understanding cybercriminal behaviour among young people.

Dutch Summary

- Dissertation:

Easy to read pieces about my dissertation research:

Column CEP (Confederation of European Probation)

Column DCypher English

Column DCypher Dutch

NSCR nieuwsbrief interview