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Janique Kroese is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and a visiting researcher at Griffith University, Australia. Her research primarily focuses on the dynamics within families and criminal behavior. In 2022, Kroese obtained her PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and NSCR, where her dissertation examined the effects of growing up in a single-parent family during childhood and adolescence on adolescents' involvement in delinquency. During her PhD trajectory, she worked on various projects related to the consequences of parental crime, high-conflict divorces, and domestic violence. Before her PhD, she completed a research master's degree in Social Psychology and worked as a research assistant and junior lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Kroese coordinates and teaches courses in the bachelor's and master's programs in Criminology, focusing on the nature, extent, and harm of crime, as well as developmental and life-course criminology. She is also the thesis coordinator for the master's program and a member of the Examination Committee of the Faculty of Law.
Administered under the Department of Clinical Psychology for Master's in Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology.