Ann De Buck is PhD candidate and academic assistant in Criminology (since 2016) at Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology. She is currently working on a doctoral research project, under the supervision of prof. dr. Lieven Pauwels, entitled “Moral emotions and moral cognitions in context: rule breaking as failure to cooperate”. Her fields of interest are interdisciplinary theory-testing research, rule-breaking decision strategies, juvenile delinquency, and morality. She has written articles in English and Dutch peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Community Psychology, the European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research, the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, Psychometrica Belgica, the European Journal of Criminology, Panopticon. She aims to finalize her doctoral research project by the end of 2022.
Lieven J. R.Pauwels (°1974) is Professor of Criminology (since 2007) at Ghent University, Faculty of Law and Criminology. He is Co-Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy and Research (IRCP). He has been conducting theory-testing research for the past 18 years. He has written over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the author of widely usedtextbooks (in Dutch) on theories of crime causation and quantitative methods for criminologists. His fields of interest are interdisciplinary theoretical integration, the explanation of prosocial and antisocial behavioral strategies, person-environment interactions, rule-breaking decision strategies, juvenile delinquency, and violent extremism.