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 an Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. She conducts fundamental and applied research on terrorism, extremism and political violence and supervises several PhD students and postdocs. Her work has been awarded with the Early Career Award of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW; 2023), a Veni-grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO; 2022) and the Gezina van der Molen prize for talented female researchers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 2019). In 2019, New Scientist placed her in the top-25 most talented researchers from the Netherlands and Belgium. Next to the Veni, Rodermond has obtained more than ten grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Dutch Research and Documentation Center (WODC), Police & Science (P&W), the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) and the Ministry of Justice and Security. She has published in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals and books and has composed and edited special issues and edited volumes. Rodermond regularly features on national television and in newspapers, where she provides background to current affairs. Rodermond coordinates a master course on the prevention of and legal and societal responses to terrorism, extremism and political violence, as well as the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, a Law-in-Action course in which criminology and criminal law students and prisoners jointly follow lectures in prison.

Next to conducting research and teaching, Rodermond is part of the governmental expert group ‘Counter-terrorism’ of the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV). Moreover, she established and chairs the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Radicalisation, Extremism, and Terrorism, in which researchers from all over Europe and beyond collaborate. Rodermond is Associate editor of Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression and editor of the Dutch journal Sancties [Santions]. In previous years, Rodermond coordinated the Master porgramme in Criminology (2021 – 2024) and served as a board member of the Dutch Society of Criminology (2019 – 2023).

Research

Elanie Rodermond conducts research on terrorism, extremism and political violence. She leads a research team to study how the online domain influences processes of radicalisation and recruitment for extremist organisations. Moreover, she obtained a Veni-grant to study women’s pathways into and out of extremism. In this study, she combines 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.

Elanie obtained her PhD in 2018 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, following a mixed-methods study on reintegration and recidivism of formerly incarcerated women based on a Research Talent Grant of the Dutch Research Council. For this study, she analysed a large quantitative dataset of ex-detainees, and conducted interviews with a subsample of formerly incarcerated women. Together, the findings pointed at factors either hindering or contributing to successful reintegration, while also shedding light on underlying mechanisms.

Teaching

Elanie teaches different courses in the BSc and MSc Criminology programs. In 2018, she 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 2021, Elanie developed a MSc Criminology course on Extremism and Terrorism for students from both the Investigative Criminology and the Intervention Criminology track.

Lastly, Elanie teaches a BSc course on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology and gives lectures in the Terrorism and Security course of the MSc program International Crimes, Conflict and Criminology.

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