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Prof. dr. W. (Wim) Bernasco

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
GPIO : Urban Geographies

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15629
    1001 NC Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2025

    • Curtis-Ham, S., Bernasco, W., Medvedev, O. N., & Polaschek, D. L. L. (2025). Familiar Locations and Similar Activities: Examining the Contributions of Reliable and Relevant Knowledge in Offenders’ Crime Location Choices. International Criminal Justice Review, 35(1), 9-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/10575677241244464
    • Hoeben, E. M., & Bernasco, W. (2025). Beyond the Borders of the Residential Neighborhood: Unstructured Socializing, Collective Efficacy, and Adolescent Delinquency. Justice Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2025.2551793
    • Liebst, L. S., Bernasco, W., Ejbye-Ernst, P., Van Herwijnen, N., Van Der Veen, T., Koelma, D., Snoek, C. G. M., & Lindegaard, M. R. (2025). Association Between Social Distancing Compliance and Public Place Crowding During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-Sectional Observational Study Using Computer Vision to Analyze Surveillance Footage. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 11, Article e50929. https://doi.org/10.2196/50929
    • Vandeviver, C., Kumar, K., Brantingham, P. J., & Bernasco, W. (2025). Target Choices of Inner-City Illegal Taggers Demonstrate Consistency and Specificity. Deviant Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2025.2539317

    2024

    • Kroese, J., Bernasco, W., Liefbroer, A. C., & Rouwendal, J. (2024). The Anticipatory, Short-Term, and Long-Term Effects of Parental Separation and Parental Death on Adolescent Delinquency. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 10(2), 288-308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-024-00252-7
    • Kuralarasan, K., Bernasco, W., & Vandeviver, C. (2024). Graffiti Writers Choose Locations That Optimize Exposure. Crime and Delinquency. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287241287133

    2023

    • Bernasco, W., Hoeben, E. M., Koelma, D., Liebst, L. S., Thomas, J., Appelman, J., Snoek, C. G. M., & Lindegaard, M. R. (2023). Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing. Sociological Methods and Research, 52(3), 1239–1287. https://doi.org/10.1177/00491241221099554 [details]
    • Curtis-Ham, S., Bernasco, W., Medvedev, O. N., & Polaschek, D. L. L. (2023). Relationships Between Offenders’ Crime Locations and Different Prior Activity Locations as Recorded in Police Data. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 38(1), 172-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-022-09540-8
    • Liebst, L. S., Philpot, R., Ejbye-Ernst, P., Bernasco, W., Bruvik Heinskou, M., Verbeek, P., Levine, M., & Lindegaard, M. R. (2023). Consolation in the aftermath of violent public assaults: An interaction ethological study. Culture and Evolution, 20(1), 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1556/2055.2023.00018 [details]
    • Song, G., Zhang, Y., Bernasco, W., Cai, L., Liu, L., Qin, B., & Chen, P. (2023). Residents, Employees and Visitors: Effects of Three Types of Ambient Population on Theft on Weekdays and Weekends in Beijing, China. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 39(2), 385-423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-021-09538-1
    • Vandeviver, C., Neirynck, E., & Bernasco, W. (2023). The foraging perspective in criminology: A review of research literature. European Journal of Criminology, 20(2), 626-652. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708211025864

    2022

    2021

    2005

    • van de Riet, M., Bernasco, W., & van der Laan, P. H. (2005). Politie en jeugdigen. Tijdschrift voor Familie- en Jeugdrecht, 27(3), 66-71.

    2001

    2000

    • Kalmijn, M., & Bernasco, W. (2000). The ties that bind: A study of individualism in married and cohabiting couples in the Netherlands. In J. Weesie, & W. Raub (Eds.), The Management of Durable Relations: theoretical models and empirical studies of households and organizations : proceedings of the Conference, the Management of Durable Relations (pp. 51-52). Thela Thesis.

    1999

    • Kalmijn, M., & Bernasco, W. (1999). De gezamenlijkheid van leefstijlen. In M. Kalmijn, W. Bernasco, & J. Weesie (Eds.), Huwelijks- en samenwoonrelaties in Nederland: De organisatie van afhankelijkheid (pp. 123-150). Van Gorcum.
    • Kalmijn, M., Bernasco, W., & Weesie, J. (1999). Theoretische achtergrond, onderzoeksthema’s en het onderzoek Huishoudens in Nederland. In M. Kalmijn, W. Bernasco, & J. Weesie (Eds.), Huwelijks- en samenwoonrelaties in Nederland: De organisatie van afhankelijkheid (pp. 1-12). Van Gorcum.

    1999

    • Kalmijn, M., Bernasco, W., & Weesie, J. (Eds.) (1999). Huwelijks- en samenwoonrelaties in Nederland: De organisatie van afhankelijkheid. Van Gorcum.

    2025

    • Bernasco, W. (2025). Tekens aan de wand? Wat kunnen we van graffiti leren over de geografie van misdaad? = Signs on the wall? What can we learn from graffiti about the geography of crime? [details]

    1998

    • Bernasco, W., de Voogd-Hamelink, A. M., Vosse, J. P. M., & Wetzels, C. M. M. P. (1998). Trendrapport Vraag naar Arbeid 1998. (OSA publicatie; No. A163). OSA, Organisatie voor Strategisch Arbeidsmarktonderzoek. [details]

    1996

    • Kalmijn, M., Bernasco, W., & Weesie, J. (1996). Huishoudens in Nederland 1995. (ISCORE paper; No. 67). ISCORE.

    Media appearance

    2022

    • Ejbye-Ernst, P. (2022). Intervention in (inter)action: A video-based analysis of the role of third parties in interpersonal conflicts. [Thesis, externally prepared, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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  • Ancillary activities
    • NSCR, Amsterdan
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