Jan VAN DIJK Officer-in-charge of the Human Security Branch, Division for Operations of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna
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| 1970 | Law Degree, Leiden University |
| 1977 | PhD in Law, University of Nijmegen |
| 1976 | -89 Director Research and Documentation Centre, Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands |
| 1984 | -89 Founder and first chairman of the National Organization of Victim Support in the Netherlands |
| 1989 | -94 Director Crime Prevention Directorate, Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands |
| 1992-2002 | Professor of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| 1994 | -99 Director of Strategic Policy Planning, Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands |
| 1997-2000 | President of World Society of Victimology |
| 1999 | joined the United Nations |
| Guest lectures at the Universities of Oxford, Leuven, London (LSE), Copenhagen, Helsinki, Rutgers (Newark), Sevilla, Jakarta, Madras et al. |
Mitgliedschaften
| Editorial Boards of International Review of Victimology; European Journal of Crime, Policy and Research; Journal of Risk, Security and Crime Prevention; and Forum on Crime and Society | |
| General coordinator of the International Crime Survey, in collaboration with Gallup, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Member of the Executive Board of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, University College London |
Publikationen
| Does Crime Pay? On the relationships between crime, rule of law and economic growth, in: Forum on Crime and Society, 1/2001 | |
| Caring for Crime Victims (co-ed.). Criminal Justice Press 1999 | |
| Experiences of Crime across the World, Key findings from the 1989 International Crime Survey (with Pat Mayhew and Martin Killias). Deventer 1990 |
Auszeichnungen
| 1995 Stephen Schafer Award for outstanding contributions to the Victims' Movement, of the National Organization of Victims Assistance, Washington | |
| 2001 Honorary Doctorate in Law of Terunelveli University, Indiana | |
| 2003 Hans von Hentig Award of the World Society of Victimology |
