Christophe Vandeviver
Biographic Data
| ID | 162870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christophe Vandeviver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christophe |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandeviver |
| SIGNATURE | VANDEVIVER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9714-7006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Street-Level Theft Opportunities are Conditioned by Neighborhood Context
Environmental criminology emphasizes that crime opportunities are shaped by micro-level features of the built environment, yet less is known about how these effects vary across neighborhood contexts for theft. This study examines police-recorded theft across 6,991 street segments nested within 15 neighborhoods in Aalst, Belgium (2023–2024), using multilevel negative binomial models. Theft was associated with intersection density, linearity, road …
Short infrequent police stops maximize crime-free time at street segments
Establishing optimal police dosage is central to evidence-based policing. The current consensus is that 15-minute patrols represent the optimal level of such dosage. This study revisits this central assumption of police research and practice, by examining the relationship between the duration and frequency of police patrol and the timing of subsequent crime at the street segment level. Drawing on 21,581 GPS-tracked police stops and 45,987 citizen…
Graffiti Writers Choose Locations That Optimize Exposure
We investigate the spatial decision-making of graffiti writers when selecting target locations, examining how street segment characteristics influence exposure. Extending the rational choice perspective to expressive offending, we collected data through Systematic Social Observation in Ghent’s city center in November 2017, covering 12,655 graffiti instances across 2,233 street segments. The SSO involved counting graffiti items and public faciliti…
Violence by Association and Participation
This study examines how violent co-offenders shape future offending trajectories, distinguishing between committing violence with a violent co-offender (direct exposure) versus associating with violent accomplices (indirect exposure). Using police data, we applied binary logistic regressions to a sample of Belgian offenders (N = 20,203) to examine the likelihood of general and violent reoffending. Our results show that having a violent co-offende…
Moving to Crime Opportunity
A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of co-offending characteristics
Target Choices of Inner-City Illegal Taggers Demonstrate Consistency and Specificity
Offender populations are diverse, with individual offenders preferring specific target types. While extensive research has focused on high-impact crimes, the consistency and specificity of lower-impact offenses like tagging remain underexplored. Consistency refers to how stable an offender’s preferred target type is, and specificity addresses whether different offenders prefer different target types. We examined these patterns among taggers, a ty…
Promoting Anti-Rape Attitudes in Young Men Through the Repetition-Induced Truth Effect
The repetition-induced truth effect (RITE) refers to the robust observation that repeated statements are more likely to be believed than new ones. We propose that this mechanism can be used to promote anti-rape attitudes. We conducted three experimental studies (n1 = 103, n2 = 206, n3 = 339) to test whether repetition increases agreement with statements from an anti-rape attitude scale. Participants, all heterosexual men aged 18-25, were presente…
More Than Just a Scratch
Violence against police is a reality for many officers. Despite growing concerns over the rise in violence against police and the serious individual and societal repercussions associated with it, a comprehensive overview of the psychological and physical consequences of verbal and physical violence against police remains elusive. By performing a scoping review ( n = 21) of studies and reports identified via database searches (Web of Science and G…
The impact of violent behavior on co-offender selection
Suspect, Officer, and Situational Dynamics Underlying Violent Resistance Against Police
Assaults against police officers pose a significant challenge to law enforcement safety, yet the factors driving such violence remain complex and underexplored. This critical interpretative synthesis (CIS) is the first literature review to examine violent resistance from an interpretative perspective. By reviewing 38 studies from 2000 to 2024, identified through various methods, we develop a theoretical framework to better understand and contextu…
The foraging perspective in criminology
In order to explain how crimes are carried out, and why at a particular place and time and against a specific target, crime studies increasingly harness theory from behavioural ecology, in particular Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT). However, an overview of their main findings does not exist. Given the growing focus on OFT as a behavioural framework for structuring crime research, in this article we review the extant OFT-inspired empirical crime res…
Simple indicators of crime and police
This study demonstrates how temporal summary statistics can be a guiding tool for big data analyses to unravel temporal patterns of crime and police presence. Simple indicator statistics were used to identify temporal clusters of crimes and police presence, and to investigate potential links between the two. The methodology was applied on an anonymized police database, including reported crime events and police presence data, from a medium-sized …
Navigating the Social Maze
Social network analysis (SNA) holds great potential for examining the influence of peers and group dynamics on the development of criminal behavior among adolescents as it offers a robust framework for studying complex social interactions. However, there needs to be more knowledge regarding key research findings on deviant adolescent influence using a social network approach. In this integrative literature review, we examine what type of informat…
Hot spots and burning times
Establishing police demand is important to optimally allocate scarce police resources in space and time. To contribute to the existing knowledge on the optimization of policing and crime prevention strategies worldwide, we examine the spatiotemporal pattern of calls for service (CFS), with a focus on the urgency of the calls (as measured by the police priority codes), in Antwerp (2017–2020), Belgium. To disentangle the space-time pattern of the p…
The Elephant in the Room – A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Older Adults’ Sexuality
Objectives: This study aimed to explore past studies that have focused exclusively on the sexuality of adults older than 65 from a positive public health approach. Methods: We performed a critical interpretive synthesis, starting with the literature review on sexual behaviors in later life, adding policy documents on aging sexuality, and bringing new perspectives. Results: Older adults continue to be sexually active. Healthcare professionals lack…
Victimization of Applicants for International Protection Residing in Belgium
Background: Sexual violence (SV) literature on applicants for international protection (AIPs) shows that they are at high risk of victimization. The study objectives are to provide an exploratory overview of the occurrence of SV in AIPs in Belgium and their help-seeking behavior (HSB). This overview is crucial to develop prevention strategies and care paths focusing on providing adequate care to AIP SV victims in Belgium. Methods: Quantitative da…
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds”
Sexual violence (SV) has an important impact on mental health. Childhood sexual abuse is linked to internalising disorders in later life. In older adults, SV occurs more often than previously believed. Moreover, health care workers lack the skills to address SV in later life. Studies researching the mental health impact of lifetime SV, i.e., SV during childhood, adulthood, and old age, are lacking. Between July 2019 and March 2020, 513 older adul…
Locked up at home
It is advisable to make extra efforts to improve well-being when maintaining sanitary measures by providing appropriate assistance and helping households struggling with increased or acute stress to install positive coping strategies - especially in larger households with children between six and 17 years. Besides, our findings draw attention to the clustering of risk of child and adult violence exposure in lockdown situations as well as to the p…
Police equilibrium
Police resources are scarce public goods and have to be used with maximum efficiency. One dimension of efficiency is the spatial and temporal alignment of police presence to calls-for-service. The research question of interest in this paper is whether the police are where and when they are needed most. We employ a supply and demand model based on police presence and the occurrence of calls for police service. We use GPS data from 100 tracked poli…
Two decades of European criminology
What is European criminology about? Through topic modelling, we investigate the content of 11,724 presentations held at the annual conferences of the European Society of Criminology, the largest and most influential professional association in Europe for those who are actively engaged in research, teaching, and/or practice in criminology, from 2001 to 2019. We extract 50 topics and identify the top contributing institutions and countries based on…
Mental health and domestic violence in LGB+ persons during lockdown measures in Belgium
Background: To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide restricted social and physical contact by issuing lockdown and social-distancing measures. Yet, lockdown measures may induce mental health problems and increase the occurrence of domestic violence (DV). We examine mental health and DV in lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and asexual (LGB+) persons under lockdown. Methods: An online self-report questionnaire on relationships, str…
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Sexual Victimization
Sexual victimization is a major public health, judicial, and societal concern worldwide. Nationally representative and comparable studies are still lacking. We applied a broad definition of sexual violence, including hands-off and hands-on victimization, and behaviorally specific questions to assess sexual victimization. Lifetime and 12-month prevalence estimates were obtained that are representative of the Belgian general population aged 16 to 6…
Big Boys Don’t Cry
Sexual victimization is typically presented as a gender-based problem involving a female victim and a male offender. Science, policy, and society focus on female victims at the expense of male victims. Male sexual victimization is thus understudied compared with female sexual victimization. By performing a critical interpretive synthesis of research papers, policy documents, and gray literature ( N = 67) published in four electronic databases fro…
Assessing the missing data problem in criminal network analysis using forensic DNA data
Missing data is pertinent to criminal networks due to the hidden nature of crime. Generally, researchers evaluate the impact of incomplete network data by extracting or adding nodes and/or edges from a known network. Statistics on this reduced or completed network are then compared with statistics from the known network. In this study, we integrate police data on known offenders with DNA data on unknown offenders. Statistics from the integrated d…
The critical interpretive synthesis
The importance of the critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) to review quantitative and qualitative research, and to critically develop new theory, is increasingly recognized and evidenced by the increase in published CIS reviews. However, the flexibility embedded in the method hampers its implementation and exacerbates concerns about trustworthiness. This paper seeks to determine the extent of transparent reporting and soundness of execution in p…
Measurement equivalence of the CES-D 8 depression-scale among the ageing population in eleven European countries
What Makes Long Crime Trips Worth Undertaking? Balancing Costs and Benefits in Burglars’ Journey to Crime
This study taps into rational choice theory and scrutinizes the assumption that profit maximization and effort minimization govern decisions related to burglary behaviour and the journey to crime. It treats distance as one of the major costs in the burglary target selection process and uses community characteristics to gain insight into how the anticipation of particular benefits favours the incremental costs of long crime trips. Two thousand thr…
Promoting Anti-Rape Attitudes in Young Men Through the Repetition-Induced Truth Effect
The repetition-induced truth effect (RITE) refers to the robust observation that repeated statements are more likely to be believed than new ones. We propose that this mechanism can be used to promote anti-rape attitudes. We conducted three experimental studies (n1 = 103, n2 = 206, n3 = 339) to test whether repetition increases agreement with statements from an anti-rape attitude scale. Participants, all heterosexual men aged 18-25, were presente…
The impact of violent behavior on co-offender selection
Navigating the Social Maze
Social network analysis (SNA) holds great potential for examining the influence of peers and group dynamics on the development of criminal behavior among adolescents as it offers a robust framework for studying complex social interactions. However, there needs to be more knowledge regarding key research findings on deviant adolescent influence using a social network approach. In this integrative literature review, we examine what type of informat…
Measurement equivalence of the CES-D 8 depression-scale among the ageing population in eleven European countries
What Makes Long Crime Trips Worth Undertaking? Balancing Costs and Benefits in Burglars’ Journey to Crime
This study taps into rational choice theory and scrutinizes the assumption that profit maximization and effort minimization govern decisions related to burglary behaviour and the journey to crime. It treats distance as one of the major costs in the burglary target selection process and uses community characteristics to gain insight into how the anticipation of particular benefits favours the incremental costs of long crime trips. Two thousand thr…
Big Boys Don’t Cry
Sexual victimization is typically presented as a gender-based problem involving a female victim and a male offender. Science, policy, and society focus on female victims at the expense of male victims. Male sexual victimization is thus understudied compared with female sexual victimization. By performing a critical interpretive synthesis of research papers, policy documents, and gray literature ( N = 67) published in four electronic databases fro…
Assessing the missing data problem in criminal network analysis using forensic DNA data
Missing data is pertinent to criminal networks due to the hidden nature of crime. Generally, researchers evaluate the impact of incomplete network data by extracting or adding nodes and/or edges from a known network. Statistics on this reduced or completed network are then compared with statistics from the known network. In this study, we integrate police data on known offenders with DNA data on unknown offenders. Statistics from the integrated d…
The critical interpretive synthesis
The importance of the critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) to review quantitative and qualitative research, and to critically develop new theory, is increasingly recognized and evidenced by the increase in published CIS reviews. However, the flexibility embedded in the method hampers its implementation and exacerbates concerns about trustworthiness. This paper seeks to determine the extent of transparent reporting and soundness of execution in p…
Two decades of European criminology
What is European criminology about? Through topic modelling, we investigate the content of 11,724 presentations held at the annual conferences of the European Society of Criminology, the largest and most influential professional association in Europe for those who are actively engaged in research, teaching, and/or practice in criminology, from 2001 to 2019. We extract 50 topics and identify the top contributing institutions and countries based on…
Mental health and domestic violence in LGB+ persons during lockdown measures in Belgium
Background: To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, governments worldwide restricted social and physical contact by issuing lockdown and social-distancing measures. Yet, lockdown measures may induce mental health problems and increase the occurrence of domestic violence (DV). We examine mental health and DV in lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, and asexual (LGB+) persons under lockdown. Methods: An online self-report questionnaire on relationships, str…
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Sexual Victimization
Sexual victimization is a major public health, judicial, and societal concern worldwide. Nationally representative and comparable studies are still lacking. We applied a broad definition of sexual violence, including hands-off and hands-on victimization, and behaviorally specific questions to assess sexual victimization. Lifetime and 12-month prevalence estimates were obtained that are representative of the Belgian general population aged 16 to 6…
Hot spots and burning times
Establishing police demand is important to optimally allocate scarce police resources in space and time. To contribute to the existing knowledge on the optimization of policing and crime prevention strategies worldwide, we examine the spatiotemporal pattern of calls for service (CFS), with a focus on the urgency of the calls (as measured by the police priority codes), in Antwerp (2017–2020), Belgium. To disentangle the space-time pattern of the p…
The Elephant in the Room – A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of Older Adults’ Sexuality
Objectives: This study aimed to explore past studies that have focused exclusively on the sexuality of adults older than 65 from a positive public health approach. Methods: We performed a critical interpretive synthesis, starting with the literature review on sexual behaviors in later life, adding policy documents on aging sexuality, and bringing new perspectives. Results: Older adults continue to be sexually active. Healthcare professionals lack…
Victimization of Applicants for International Protection Residing in Belgium
Background: Sexual violence (SV) literature on applicants for international protection (AIPs) shows that they are at high risk of victimization. The study objectives are to provide an exploratory overview of the occurrence of SV in AIPs in Belgium and their help-seeking behavior (HSB). This overview is crucial to develop prevention strategies and care paths focusing on providing adequate care to AIP SV victims in Belgium. Methods: Quantitative da…
Time Does Not Heal All Wounds”
Sexual violence (SV) has an important impact on mental health. Childhood sexual abuse is linked to internalising disorders in later life. In older adults, SV occurs more often than previously believed. Moreover, health care workers lack the skills to address SV in later life. Studies researching the mental health impact of lifetime SV, i.e., SV during childhood, adulthood, and old age, are lacking. Between July 2019 and March 2020, 513 older adul…
Locked up at home
It is advisable to make extra efforts to improve well-being when maintaining sanitary measures by providing appropriate assistance and helping households struggling with increased or acute stress to install positive coping strategies - especially in larger households with children between six and 17 years. Besides, our findings draw attention to the clustering of risk of child and adult violence exposure in lockdown situations as well as to the p…
Police equilibrium
Police resources are scarce public goods and have to be used with maximum efficiency. One dimension of efficiency is the spatial and temporal alignment of police presence to calls-for-service. The research question of interest in this paper is whether the police are where and when they are needed most. We employ a supply and demand model based on police presence and the occurrence of calls for police service. We use GPS data from 100 tracked poli…
The foraging perspective in criminology
In order to explain how crimes are carried out, and why at a particular place and time and against a specific target, crime studies increasingly harness theory from behavioural ecology, in particular Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT). However, an overview of their main findings does not exist. Given the growing focus on OFT as a behavioural framework for structuring crime research, in this article we review the extant OFT-inspired empirical crime res…
Simple indicators of crime and police
This study demonstrates how temporal summary statistics can be a guiding tool for big data analyses to unravel temporal patterns of crime and police presence. Simple indicator statistics were used to identify temporal clusters of crimes and police presence, and to investigate potential links between the two. The methodology was applied on an anonymized police database, including reported crime events and police presence data, from a medium-sized …
Navigating the Social Maze
Social network analysis (SNA) holds great potential for examining the influence of peers and group dynamics on the development of criminal behavior among adolescents as it offers a robust framework for studying complex social interactions. However, there needs to be more knowledge regarding key research findings on deviant adolescent influence using a social network approach. In this integrative literature review, we examine what type of informat…
More Than Just a Scratch
Violence against police is a reality for many officers. Despite growing concerns over the rise in violence against police and the serious individual and societal repercussions associated with it, a comprehensive overview of the psychological and physical consequences of verbal and physical violence against police remains elusive. By performing a scoping review ( n = 21) of studies and reports identified via database searches (Web of Science and G…
The impact of violent behavior on co-offender selection
Suspect, Officer, and Situational Dynamics Underlying Violent Resistance Against Police
Assaults against police officers pose a significant challenge to law enforcement safety, yet the factors driving such violence remain complex and underexplored. This critical interpretative synthesis (CIS) is the first literature review to examine violent resistance from an interpretative perspective. By reviewing 38 studies from 2000 to 2024, identified through various methods, we develop a theoretical framework to better understand and contextu…
Moving to Crime Opportunity
A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of co-offending characteristics
Target Choices of Inner-City Illegal Taggers Demonstrate Consistency and Specificity
Offender populations are diverse, with individual offenders preferring specific target types. While extensive research has focused on high-impact crimes, the consistency and specificity of lower-impact offenses like tagging remain underexplored. Consistency refers to how stable an offender’s preferred target type is, and specificity addresses whether different offenders prefer different target types. We examined these patterns among taggers, a ty…
Promoting Anti-Rape Attitudes in Young Men Through the Repetition-Induced Truth Effect
The repetition-induced truth effect (RITE) refers to the robust observation that repeated statements are more likely to be believed than new ones. We propose that this mechanism can be used to promote anti-rape attitudes. We conducted three experimental studies (n1 = 103, n2 = 206, n3 = 339) to test whether repetition increases agreement with statements from an anti-rape attitude scale. Participants, all heterosexual men aged 18-25, were presente…
Street-Level Theft Opportunities are Conditioned by Neighborhood Context
Environmental criminology emphasizes that crime opportunities are shaped by micro-level features of the built environment, yet less is known about how these effects vary across neighborhood contexts for theft. This study examines police-recorded theft across 6,991 street segments nested within 15 neighborhoods in Aalst, Belgium (2023–2024), using multilevel negative binomial models. Theft was associated with intersection density, linearity, road …
Psychology (16 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (14 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Poison control (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (6 works) · Injury prevention (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)