Catharina Christina Johanna Hermina "Catrien" Bijleveld (born 1958) is a Dutch criminologist. She is a professor of Research Methods in Criminology at the

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. Since August 2014 she is director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. Bijleveld studied psychology at

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and graduated in 1986. Three years later she obtained her PhD. Bijleveld subsequently worked for TNO as a statistical consultant. She then worked as lecturer at Leiden University. In 1997 she was employed as programme director at the Research and Documentation Centre of the

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. In 2002 Bijleveld obtained a further law degree at Leiden University. From 2001 to 2014 she was a senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. Bijleveld was elected a member of the

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in 2010. She is a member of a state commission investigating violence in Dutch from child protection services between 1945 and the present.

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Profile at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bijleveld, Catrien 1958 births Living people Dutch criminologists Dutch women criminologists Leiden University alumni Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam