Psychosocial development and the development of problem behaviour during adolescence
Ezinga, M.A.J.
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Ezinga, M. A. J. (2008, November 26). Psychosocial development and the development of problem behaviour during adolescence. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13289
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Acknowledgments
How could I ever know how important it is to have people around you to stimulate you in the things you actually do? I am honoured to be surrounded by a lot of those people.
First of all, this research was conducted at The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement. This particular institute helped me in reaching new intel- lectual heights and pursuing new goals. The combination of relativism and serious sci- ence makes the institute a great place to work. They furthermore value interdisciplinary research, therefore creating numerous opportunities for many scientific developments.
Special thanks go out to my “buddies” at the NSCR who provided me with great comfort and inspiration, as well as much humour during working hours. In alphabetical order:
Danielle, Geralda, Kim, Manon, Margit, Miriam, Nicole, and Victor. You have all become great friends and colleagues in any way possible. Thank you for also sharing in the suf- fering as fellow PhD-students. Furthermore I would like to thank all the senior research- ers and the members of the School project at the NSCR for their inspiring thoughts or funny scepticism about the project, which stimulated me to work twice as fast. Lastly, I could not have brought this to an end without Ariena van Poppel who helped me a great deal in the final stages of the dissertation. Peter van der Voort, thank you for the many reading suggestions and “impossible-to-find-articles”. Lastly, I would like to thank my sweet paranimfs: Anne-Marie Slotboom and Kim Megens. It is an honour to share a workplace with you.
Next to life in the office I also had a private life. It was rather turbulent the last couple of years. However, it was with the woman in my life that made it worthwhile. Maaike, you kept me under your wings and showed me that life is not always about work. Your sup- port and love are irreplaceable.
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Curriculum Vitae
Menno Ezinga is geboren op 23 september 1979 te Haaksbergen. Zijn VWO-diploma behaalde hij in 1999 op het Griftland college te Soest. Tussen 1999-2004 studeerde hij ontwikkelingspsychologie in Leiden. Het onderwerp van zijn scriptie betrof de verschillen in persoonlijkheids-, gezins- en schoolkenmerken tussen jeugdige zedendelinquenten en jeugdige niet-zedendelinquenten. Hierop volgend werkte hij als junior onderzoeker op het Nederlands Studiecentrum Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving in Leiden bij het Schoolproject, een longitudinale studie naar adolescenten en delinquentie. In het najaar van 2004 startte hij met zijn dissertatie op het NSCR, in samenwerking met Universiteit Leiden. Het onderwerp betrof de psychosociale ontwikkeling en de ontwikkeling van probleemgedrag in de adolescentie.
Sinds september 2007 werkt Menno als universitair docent bij de Afdeling Strafrecht en Criminologie van de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam. Zijn huidige onderzoek betreft het psychologisch welzijn van kinderen van gedetineerde moeders.
Menno Ezinga was born on the 23rd of September 1979 in Haaksbergen, The Nether- lands. He obtained his degree in pre-university education 1999 at the Griftland College in Soest. Between 1999 and 2004 he studied Developmental Psychology at Leiden University, graduated on the subject “Differences in personality, family and school cha- racteristics between juvenile sex- and non-sex-offenders”. Following this, he worked at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement as a junior re- searcher for the School project, a longitudinal study on adolescents and delinquency.
Autumn 2004, Menno started his PhD research at the same institute, in collaboration with Leiden University, on psychosocial development and the development of problem behaviour in adolescence.
Since September 2007, Menno is employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the VU University in Amsterdam. His current re- search focuses on the psychological wellbeing of children of imprisoned mothers.
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