About us
Goals and Collaboration
We started this project to better understand the complex pathways into and out of cybercrime. Despite growing global concern, there is still limited knowledge about the personal, social, and technological factors that lead individuals to engage in cybercriminal activity—or to desist from it.
By bridging this knowledge gap, we aim to inform more effective prevention and intervention strategies. Our goal is to bring together research, practice, and policy through evidence-based insights.
Research team
Prof. dr. Leukfeldt
Professor of Governing Cybercrime, Leiden University; Director, Center of Expertise Cybersecurity, The Hague University of Applied Sciences; Senior researcher, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)
e.r.leukfeldt@hhs.nl
Jildau Borwell MSc
Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre of Expertise Cyber Security, The Hague University of Applied Sciences; Analyst, Team Cybercrime North-Netherlands, Police
j.borwell@hhs.nl
Dr. Luuk Bekkers
Postdoctoral researcher, Centre of Expertise Cyber Security, The Hague University of Applied Sciences; Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR)
L.M.J.Bekkers@hhs.nl
Organizations
Funding Body
Advisory Board
The advisory board for the CybercrimePathways Programme consists of the following members:
Alice Hutchings
• Director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, an interdisciplinary initiative combining expertise from computer science, criminology, and law
• Associate Professor in the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College (USA)
Benoît Dupont
• Professor of Criminology at the Université de Montréal (Ca)
• Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity and the Research Chair for the Prevention of Cybercrime (www.prevention-cybercrime.ca)
• Scientific Director of the Smart Cybersecurity Network (SERENE-RISC) (USA)
Edward Kleemans
• Professor at the VU School of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Full Professor in Serious and Organized Crime and Criminal Justice)
Floor Jansen
• Head of the Cyber Offender Prevention Squad (COPS) of the High Tech Crime Unit of the Dutch National Police (USA)
Jonathan Lusthaus
• Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project in the Department of Sociology
• Research Associate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford
• Adjunct Associate Professor at UNSW Canberra Cyber
Thomas Holt
• Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (USA)
Contact us
Contact us to explore sponsorship opportunities, collaborate with our research team, or engage with our advisory board to support groundbreaking cybercrime prevention efforts.