André De Zutter is a legal psychologist who works as an assistant professor at the department of Criminal Law & Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He conducts research in the field of Psychology and Law with a focus on sexual assault. He obtained his phd in 2018 on: "My story of the rape and why I should be believed. On how true and false allegations of rape differ." at Maastricht University. He also works as an expert witness for the courts in Belgium and The Netherlands. He is a supervisor in the Dutch Reasonable Doubt Project. In this capacity, he inspected with the students several criminal files of suspects claiming to be innocent. He is a member of the board of the Dutch association for criminology, The Nederlandse Vereniging voor Criminologie (NVC). Member of the Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP).
dr. Andre De Zutter, MPhil
As a legal psychologist his research interest is at the intersection between applied psychological science, cognitive, social, and experimental psychology, and the legal system. His primary focus is on sexual assault, sextortion, Image Based Sexual Abuse (IBSA), deepfake and deepnudes. He is the Dutch expert on the difference between true and fabricated allegations of rape. But he is also interested in how stress, time and questioning techniques affect what people remember, the validity of statements. Police line-ups (Oslo confrontations), false confessions, and decision-making are his other areas of interest.
He teaches several courses in the Bachelor of Criminology, the bachelor Law in Society, and the minor Forensic Criminology.
Legal psychology
Psychology
Methods of research
He supervised numerous theses of students, and helped countless students graduate, obtain their master’s or bachelor’s degree.
- Gerechtelijk deskundige | Nederland | Adviseur | 2019-01-07 - present
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