- Born 1948 in Haarlem, Netherlands.
- Study of history at the University of Amsterdam, 1966-73.
- Teacher of history at secondary school in Amsterdam, 1973-74.
- Research for dissertation; grant from ZWO (Dutch national institution for scientific research), 1975-78.
- Promotion at (Ph.D. degree from) University of Amsterdam, 1978.
- Working at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands since 1977. Department of History and (since 2005) Law Faculty, section of Criminology. Function: Professor of Historical Criminology.
- Secretary of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice (IAHCCJ) since its foundation in 1978.
- Member of the editorial board of Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/ Crime, History & Societies (since 1995).
- Research Director of the program on Group Cultures (since 2004: Group Formation and Civil Society) of the Posthumus Institute (Dutch inter-university research school for socio-economic and socio-cultural history), 1993-2005.
- Member of the comité scientifique of the Groupe Européen de Recherches sur les Normativités (GERN), Paris, since 1998.
- Project leader of international project to write a history of social control in Europe (1997-2003).
- Visiting professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, March-May 2001.
- Project leader (with Sophie Body-Gendrot) of an international project on interpersonal violence, historical and contemporary (2003-5).
- Visiting professor, Law School, University of California at Berkeley, January-June 2006.
- Co-leader (with Laurent Mucchielli) of the workpackage "The Evolution of Deviant Behavior" of FP6-project CRIMPREV, since July 2006.
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