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Overview

Wim Bernasco is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant emphasis on sociology and political science. They have contributed to various subfields including epidemiology, modeling and simulation, general health professions, and urban studies.

Their work covers several topical areas related to crime and social behavior. Main themes in their research include:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Social distancing compliance: A video observational analysis," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Growing up in single-parent families and the criminal involvement of adolescents: a systematic review," 2020, Psychology Crime and Law
  • "Does Danger Level Affect Bystander Intervention in Real-Life Conflicts? Evidence From CCTV Footage," 2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "Residents, Employees and Visitors: Effects of Three Types of Ambient Population on Theft on Weekdays and Weekends in Beijing, China," 2021, Journal of Quantitative Criminology
  • "A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space," 2020, Crime Science

Bernasco frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sophie Curtis-Ham
  • Oleg N. Medvedev
  • Devon L. L. Polaschek
  • Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
  • Lasse Suonperä Liebst

Their publications are often found in specific journals and venues known for criminology and social science research. Common venues for their work include:

  • CrimRxiv
  • Journal of Quantitative Criminology
  • Crime Science
  • European Journal of Criminology
  • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

Best Publications

  • Robberies in Chicago: A Block-Level Analysis of the Influence of Crime Generators, Crime Attractors, and Offender Anchor Points:

    Wim Bernasco;Richard Block

  • How Do Residential Burglars Select Target Areas? A New Approach to the Analysis of Criminal Location Choice

    Wim Bernasco;Paul Nieuwbeerta

  • Space-time patterns of risk: A cross national assessment of residential burglary victimization

    Shane D. Johnson;Wim Bernasco;Kate J. Bowers;Henk Elffers

  • WHERE OFFENDERS CHOOSE TO ATTACK: A DISCRETE CHOICE MODEL OF ROBBERIES IN CHICAGO*

    Wim Bernasco;Richard Block

  • A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY TO CRIME: EFFECTS OF RESIDENTIAL HISTORY ON CRIME LOCATION CHOICE*

    Wim Bernasco

  • EFFECTS OF ATTRACTIVENESS, OPPORTUNITY AND ACCESSIBILITY TO BURGLARS ON RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY RATES OF URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS

    Wim Bernasco;Floor Luykx

  • Them Again?: Same-Offender Involvement in Repeat and Near Repeat Burglaries

    Wim Bernasco

  • Putting crime in its place: Units of analysis in geographic criminology

    David Weisburd;David Weisburd;Wim Bernasco;Gerben J N Bruinsma

  • Units of analysis in geographic criminologY: Historical development, critical issues, and open questions

    David Weisburd;David Weisburd;Gerben J.N. Bruinsma;Wim Bernasco

  • Criminal groups and transnational illegal markets : A more detailed examination on the basis of Social Network Theory

    Gerben Bruinsma;Wim Bernasco

  • Putting Crime in its Place

    David Weisburd;Wim Bernasco;Gerben J.N. Bruinsma

  • Joint and separated lifestyles in couple relationships

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Wim Bernasco

  • When Is Spending Time With Peers Related to Delinquency? The Importance of Where, What, and With Whom

    Frank M. Weerman;Wim Bernasco;Gerben J. N. Bruinsma;Lieven J. R. Pauwels

  • Situational Causes of Offending: A Fixed-Effects Analysis of Space-Time Budget Data

    Wim Bernasco;Stijn Ruiter;Gerben J.N. Bruinsma;Lieven J.R. Pauwels

  • Co-offending and the choice of target areas in burglary

    Wim Bernasco

  • Social Disorganization, Social Capital, Collective Efficacy and the Spatial Distribution of Crime and Offenders An Empirical Test of Six Neighbourhood Models for a Dutch City

    Gerben J. N. Bruinsma;Lieven J. R. Pauwels;Frank M. Weerman;Wim Bernasco

  • Coupled careers. Effects of spouse's resources on occupational attainment in the Netherlands

    W. Bernasco;P.M. de Graaf;W.C. Ultee

  • More Places than Crimes: Implications for Evaluating the Law of Crime Concentration at Place

    Wim Bernasco;Wouter Steenbeek

  • Moral emotions and offending : do feelings of anticipated shame and guilt mediate the effect of socialization on offending?

    Robert Svensson;Frank M. Weerman;Lieven J. R. Pauwels;Gerben J. N. Bruinsma

  • Modeling Micro-Level Crime Location Choice: Application of the Discrete Choice Framework to Crime at Places

    Wim Bernasco

  • The oxford handbook of offender decision making

    Wim Bernasco;Jean Louis Van Gelder;Henk Elffers

  • Same-Offender Involvement in Repeat and Near Repeat Burglaries

    Wim Bernasco

Frequent Co-Authors

Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Paul Nieuwbeerta
Paul Nieuwbeerta Leiden University
Arjan Blokland
Arjan Blokland Maastricht University
Devon L. L. Polaschek
Devon L. L. Polaschek University of Waikato
Shane D. Johnson
Shane D. Johnson University College London
Tom F. M. ter Bogt
Tom F. M. ter Bogt Utrecht University
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
Jerry H. Ratcliffe
Jerry H. Ratcliffe Temple University
Kate J. Bowers
Kate J. Bowers University College London
Matthijs Kalmijn
Matthijs Kalmijn University of Groningen

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