Jessica Hill is an assistant professor at the Criminology department, Faculty of Law. She obtained her MSc in social psychology (cum laude) at the VU university in 2014. She carried out her PhD research at the NSCR, Amsterdam. In September 2017, she defended her PhD 'On the Road to Adulthood' at Leiden University. In her thesis she looked at desistance processes in young Dutch adults, using a variety of longitudinal research methods. From 2017 to 2020 she worked at the WODC in The Hague. During her time at the WODC she examined reoffending by ex-forensic care patients and youth offenders. She developed a new method for measuring reoffending during forensic care treatment.
She has been teaching and carrying out research at the VU University since August 2020. Since starting at the VU she has developed a research line examining environmental harm. She is chair of the Netherlands Society from Criminology Green Criminology division. She is a member of the Dutch Network for Climate Obstruction Studies and the international Climate Social Science Network. In addition, she is a member of the GREEN, the European Society of Criminology Green Criminology working group.
