Study of history at the University of Amsterdam, 1966-73.
Teacher of history at secondary school in Amsterdam, 1973-74.
Research for dissertation; grant from ZWO (Dutch national institution for scientific research), 1975-78.
Promotion at (Ph.D. degree from) University of Amsterdam, 1978.
Working at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands from 1977 to 2013. Last function: Professor of Historical Criminology.
Secretary of the International Association for the History of Crime and Criminal Justice (IAHCCJ) from 1978 (year of its foundation) until 2014.
Research Director of the program on Group Cultures of the Posthumus Institute (Dutch inter-university research school for socio-economic and socio-cultural history), 1993-2005.
Member of the editorial board of Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/ Crime, History & Societies, 1995-2014.
Member of the jury for the Alan Sharlin award of the Social Science History Association, 1995-97 (chair in 1997).
Member of the comité scientifique of the Groupe Européen de Recherches sur les Normativités (GERN), Paris, 1998-2013.
Speaker at numerous international conferences, workshops, colloquia, etc. since 1978; in England, France, Germany, USA, Canada, Poland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Colombia and other countries.
Public lectures at, among others, UC Berkeley (1985), Wellesley College (1985), Central Michigan University (1991), Zentralarchiv für empirische Sozialforschung, Cologne (1994), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1994), Georgetown University (1994), University of Stony Brook (1994), University of Oslo, Norway (1998), John Jay College, New York (2001), Cornell University (2001), Syracuse University (2001), UC Los Angeles (2001), Institute of Criminology, Cambridge (2004), Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2005), University College Dublin (2009), University of Sheffield (2010),
various universities in Australia (2014), Florida International University (2015)
Lectures in graduate and PhD-seminars in the Netherlands and at the Universities of Essex (1992) and Warsaw (1999).
Project leader of an international project to write a history of social control in Europe (1997-2003).
Visiting professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, March-May 2001.
Project leader (with Sophie Body-Gendrot) of an international project on interpersonal violence, historical and contemporary (2003-5).
Visiting professor (Law School) at the University of California, Berkeley, January-May 2006.
Co-leader (with Laurent Mucchielli) of the workpackage The Evolution of Deviant Behavior of the FP7 project CRIMPREV (2006-2009).
Leader of a project aimed at establishing a network of scholars exploring the global trajectory of homicide and genocide (2010-2012).
Farewell lecture at Erasmus University, June 27, 2013.
Program leader (for the NWO-funded program Four Centuries of Labor Camps) at the Institute for War and Genocide Studies (NIOD) since September 2013.
