How Pseudolegal Advice Manifests Itself in Criminal Offending and Suspect Interrogations of Sovereign Citizens in the Netherlands
How Pseudolegal Advice Manifests Itself in Criminal Offending and Suspect Interrogations of Sovereign Citizens in the Netherlands
Lisa van Es Jan-Willem van Prooijen Jelle van Buuren Adriaan P. van Veldhuizen a Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlandsb Netherlands Police, The Hague, The Netherlandsc Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlandsd Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlandse Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The NetherlandsLisa van Es is affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and VU Amsterdam as a PhD researcher. She obtained her Research Master’s degree in Psychology from Leiden University in 2017, specializing in Social and Organizational Psychology and Criminology. She is employed by the Netherlands Police and works as an external PhD candidate. Her dissertation focuses on crimes associated with conspiracy theories and the sovereign citizen movement in the Netherlands.Prof. dr. Jan-Willem van Prooijen is a behavioral scientist who received his PhD from Leiden University in 2002, and currently holds positions in Psychology and Criminology. He works as Associate Professor of Social Psychology at VU Amsterdam; he is Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR); and, he is Endowed Professor of Radicalization, Extremism, and Conspiracy thinking at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht University. Prof. van Prooijen is interested in the dark side of human beings, particularly in the context of politics, law, and society. His research has three main thematic pillars: (1) conspiracy theories, (2) unethical behavior, and (3) radical ideologies.Dr. Jelle van Buuren is an Associate Professor at Leiden University – Institute of Security and Global Affairs. His research interests lie in, among other things, terrorism and counter terrorism, intelligence and security agencies, lone actors, Incels and misogyny, conspiracy theories and political legitimacy, rightwing extremism, new protest movements and anti-institutional movements. He is involved in the research project Close Protection and Surveillance.Dr. Adriaan van Veldhuizen works as a researcher at the Netherlands Police. He has a background in History and Philosophy and obtained his doctoral degree in political history from Leiden University in 2015. He worked as an assistant professor in Historical Theory at Leiden University before he started working at the Netherlands Police.