Jessica Hill

Jessica Hill is an Assistant Professor at the Criminology department, Faculty of Law, VU Amsterdam. Her research spans life course criminology and environmental harm, with a focus on longitudinal methods. She joined VU in August 2020 after working at the WODC (The Hague) from 2017–2020, where she developed a method for measuring reoffending in forensic care. She earned her MSc in Social Psychology (cum laude) from VU Amsterdam in 2014 and completed her PhD in 2017 at Leiden University, examining desistance processes in Dutch adults.