M.B. Schuilenburg

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Marc Schuilenburg teaches in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Coming from Law he decided to study Philosophy – especially the work of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari and Michel Foucault to understand how the formal structures of our society work. He worked for six years for the Public Prosecution Service, before joining the VU University Amsterdam. He earned his PhD in Social Sciences on the workings of myriad systems of surveillance and public-private security assemblages that dominate today’s urban landscape. His book 'Orde in veiligheid' (2012) was awarded the triennial Willem Nagel Prize by the Dutch Society of Criminology. He has been a visiting professor in New York (John Jay College, 2013) and is currently a visiting professor at University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich (2014-2020). Marc Schuilenburg is co-founder and current co-editor of the academic journal Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit [Journal on Culture & Crime] and current co-editor of Justitiële verkenningen [Judicial Explorations].

Research

In the fields of Criminology and Philosophy his expertise and areas of interest include politics and crime control, governance of security, social order, theoretical criminology, popular culture and French philosophy

Selected Publications

M. Schuilenburg (2019), Hysterie. Een cultuurdiagnose, Amsterdam: Boom Filosofie.
M. Schuilenburg (2015), The Securitization of Society: Crime, Risk, and Social Order (with an introduction by David Garland), New York: New York University Press, 348 pages.
M. Schuilenburg (2012), Orde in veiligheid. Een dynamisch perspectief, Den Haag: Boom Lemma, 356 pages.
A. de Jong & M. Schuilenburg (2006), Mediapolis. Popular Culture and the City, Rotterdam: 010-Publishers, 232 pages.

Prizes and Awards

Triennial Willem Nagel Prize (2014), awarded by the Dutch Criminological Association for the best doctoral dissertation written by a Dutch-speaking scholar in the Netherlands and Belgium in the field of Criminology between 2011 and 2014, to Orde in veiligheid. Een dynamisch perspectief.
Lecturer of the Year (2009), Department Criminal Law & Criminology, VU University Amsterdam.

Teaching

Prevention & Punishment
Police and Security
PhD and Master thesis supervision
Educational activities for practitioners

Ancillary activities

WODC | Den Haag | Redactielid | 2013-12-02 - present
Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit | Onbekend | Redactielid | 2017-06-06 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily

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popular culture Social Sciences

public space Social Sciences

equality of rights Social Sciences

Crime Engineering & Materials Science

criminology Social Sciences

social order Social Sciences

computer game Social Sciences

gift Social Sciences

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Research Output 2004 2018

Cultural Criminology Going Dutch: On Culture, Methodology and Research Agendas

Schuilenburg, M., van Swaaningen, R. & Staring, R., 10 Aug 2018, Cultural Criminology . Hayward, K. (ed.). Routledge, p. 252-272 21 p. (Critical Concepts in Criminology).

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

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