European Journal of Policing Studies
Article

Introduction
Authors Chaim Demarée en Els Enhus
DOI 10.5553/EJPS/2034760X2017005001002
Author's information

Chaim Demarée
Chaim Demarée has been a researcher at the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where he engaged in different observational studies about the police and policing in larger cities. He focusses on the occupational culture, policing practices and interactions with the public. (corresp: chaim.demaree@vub.ac.be).

Els Enhus
Els Enhus is master in sociology and holds a PhD in criminology on the Belgian central police policy and discourses between 1980 and 1997. She is professor at the Department of Criminology of the Free University of Brussels. She currently lectures on ‘Theoretical criminology and victimology’, ‘Crime and the city’, ‘Research methods 2’ and ‘SPSS’. Her research aims are to study the role and impact of discourses in the social construction of security and crime and the (official) societal reaction. She studies security issues (crime statistics, fear of crime, multi-agency approach, prevention, cybercrime, new developments in criminology), police questions (daily work, culture, structure), the relationship between city and crime (public spaces, neighbourhoods, youth gangs, migration) and motivations of offenders (burglary and armed robbery). She is member of CRiS (Crime & Society research group) in the research domain ‘Security, prevention and policing’ and is promotor of variety of research projects.

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