Janique Kroese

Janique Kroese is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). She holds a PhD from VU Amsterdam (2022) and a Research Master's in Social Psychology. Her work focuses on family structures and their impact on delinquency, including parental separation, single-parent families, and domestic violence.

Education: PhD in Criminology (2022, VU Amsterdam/NSCR); Research Master's in Social Psychology (pre-PhD).

Research interests: effects of broken homes on criminal behavior, adolescent delinquency, high-conflict divorces, and familial dynamics. Key areas include how family environments influence crime, with a focus on long-term consequences of parental separation and parental death.

Recent articles highlight studies on parental divorce effects, parental separation impacts, and domestic violence-crime correlations. These contributions address societal implications for crime prevention and family policy.

Awards: 2017 PhD grant for her project on 'Broken Homes and Crime'. Teaching roles include coordinating criminology courses (e.g., developmental criminology, crime impact analysis) and supervising thesis projects. Active in academic governance, serving on the Faculty of Law’s Examination Board and the Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD) board.

Labs/Teams: A-LAB and Empirical and Normative Studies group. Projects include studying domestic violence in criminal families and the differential effects of parental separation on youth criminality.