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Mattias De Backer

  • category
    professor
  • research group
    Crime & Society
  • keywords
    children & youth
    migration & diversity
    philosophy & ethics
    security & policing

Mattias De Backer is research professor at the Department of Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, co-coordinator of the Horizon Europe project GATHERINGS, editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Criminological Encounters and co-chair of the ESC Working Group on Space, Place and Crime.

He holds degrees in Philosophy, Urban Studies and Criminology, and works on topics related to youth, public space, gender & diversity, the city, migration and creative/participatory methods.