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dr. Elanie Rodermond

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Criminology

Associate Professor, A-LAB

Associate Professor, Research Programmes - Law, Empirical and Normative Studies

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Elanie Rodermond is Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Her expertise lies in the criminological and empirical-legal study of terrorism, extremism and radicalization and the prevention of and responses to these phenomena. She obtained her PhD in Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2018, with a mixed-methods study on women’s reintegration and recidivism after imprisonment.

Rodermond leads and contributes to numerous national and international research projects and has secured competitive research funding from a wide range of national and international funding bodies. Her work has also received several academic awards and distinctions, including the Early Career Award of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rodermond supervises PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers and contributes her expertise to policy and public debate. Alongside her research and teaching, she holds various academic, editorial and advisory roles.

Research

Elanie Rodermond conducts research on terrorism, extremism and radicalization. She currently leads an international research project funded by the European Commission on the prevention of terrorism and violent extremism. Recently, she finished two commissioned projects on the influence of the online domain on processes of radicalization, extremist recruitment and mobilisation. Previously, she obtained a Veni-grant to study women’s pathways into and out of extremism. In this study, she combined large-scale quantitative data with in-depth qualitative data to establish relations while also providing insights into the mechanisms underlying these relations. Next to these projects, Rodermond conducts empirical legal studies and collaborates in multiple national and international research consortia (e.g. the 4C project led by Sweden and the SCRIPT-project led by Avans Hogeschool).

Her current research builds upon several previous studies conducted since 2016 in which Rodermond examined the life-course of extremist offenders, reintegration and recidivism after release of the Dutch terrorist wings and the family-context of terrorist offenders. Her work stands out by the use of unique, large-scale register-data, as well as the use of comparison groups.

Teaching

Elanie teaches different courses in the BSc and MSc Criminology programs. In 2018, Elanie, together with Anne-Marie Slotboom, developed and taught the first Dutch Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program in the Netherlands, after completing the Instructors Course in the United States. In this course, Criminology and Criminal Law students follow classes in prison, together with a group of incarcerated individuals (inside-students). In 2026, Elanie and Anne-Marie were awarded the VU Education Impact Award for this program.

In 2021, Elanie developed a MSc Criminology course on Extremism and Terrorism for students from both the Investigative Criminology and the Intervention Criminology track.

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