Candidates to the ESC board, 2024: Marieke Kluin, at-large board member

Marieke Kluin is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Faculty of Law at Leiden University (the Netherlands). She studied Criminology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. During her studies, Marieke worked as a clerk of criminal law at the District Court of Rotterdam and as a probation officer in The Hague. She also conducted research at the Dutch National Police. After her studies, she worked as a researcher at the Safety Science Department of the Delft University of Technology, where she developed several courses and studied various accidents to implement these in faculty education.

In November 2014 she successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Optic Compliance - Enforcement and Compliance in the Dutch Chemical Industry" under the supervision of Ben Ale and Wim Huisman. Her interdisciplinary research currently focuses on white-collar crime, environmental crime, compliance and regulatory enforcement. Marieke has published on these subjects and has presented at international conferences and universities in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. At present, she is involved in projects which focus on corporate crime by using a life-course criminology perspective and the effectiveness of sanctions of environmental crimes.

Marieke has been a member of the ESC from 2009 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and she has been attending the annual conferences since then and is active in the life of the European Society of Criminology. Marieke had the privilege to learn about criminology and criminological research from many colleagues across Europe. She has been a member of the European Working Group on Organizational Crime (EUROC) since its establishment, in 2010. Marieke wrote a chapter in “The Routledge Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime in Europe”  (London: Routledge, 2015), which discussed the perception of Seveso regulation and inspection of chemical corporations.

She has been a board member of the Dutch Society of Criminology for three years (2016 -2019) where she was responsible for organizing annual conferences. In 2012 Marieke was one of the organizers of the seminar Environmental Crime and its Victims (together with Toine Spapens and Rob White) with a focus on green criminology. She was co-editor of “Environmental Crime and its Victims” (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014). Since then, Environmental Crime and…became a (bi)yearly seminar that focuses on different aspects of environmental crime, with the aim of pushing green criminological scholarship further by bridging (sub)disciplinary boundaries but also by bringing together junior and senior scholars as well as practitioners to learn from each other. In recent years, these seminars have been organized in conjunction with the annual ESC conferences, in order to limit the environmental footprint while traveling to conferences. The Green Criminology European Working Group (GREEN) which was established in May 2024 formalizes these collaborations, enhancing and stimulating research on environmental crime and harm across Europe. Marieke is co-chair with Jenny Maher and Mònica Pons-Hernández.

She feels she has benefited greatly from being a member of the ESC society. During previous conferences and seminars, Marieke likes to connect people and research. She would like to actively contribute to board discussions, offering insights, ideas, and feedback that will help drive the European Society of Criminology forward. If she is elected, she is convinced that she will make a positive contribution to the ESC Board.