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Biography
I am a postdoctoral research fellow of the Research Fund Flanders, with Ghent University (Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy) as a host institution. My research focuses on the significance of harm in environmental governance decision making. I also work as an Assistant Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). I previously worked as Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (USA) and as a researcher at Governing and Policing Security at Ghent University (Belgium).
In December of 2012 I graduated as PhD in Criminology (Ghent University, Belgium). For my dissertation I examined the governance of transnational environmental crime. I focused on the illegal transports of e-waste and tropical timber connected to the Belgian harbor of Antwerp. My areas of interest and expertise include environmental crime, organizational crime, environmental governance and policing. I am also an assistant editor of the European Journal of Policing Studies.
Before I started my PhD research, I worked as a researcher at Ghent University and the Flemish Center for Police Studies (CPS) doing research on police leadership, commissioned by the Department of the Interior about police leadership. Police leadership and policing more in general are therefore a second research interest and publication topic. In line with this research interest, I work as an assistant editor for the European Journal of Policing Studies.
Activities
- Ad hoc reviewer for Forests; Challenges; European Journal of Criminology; Cahiers Politiestudies, Asian Journal of Criminology
- 2012 - ... : Assistant editor for newly established European Journal of Policing Studies (www.maklu-online.eu/en/crime/ejps/)
- 2013-2015: Affiliate to the Contested Global Landscapes project at Cornell University (http://socialsciences.cornell.edu/land-theme-project/).
- 2008 - 2012: Assistant editor for Cahiers Politiestudies
- Guest editor for special issue "Groene criminologie en veiligheidszorg" (Green criminology and governance of security), Cahiers Politiestudies, 2015, Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Maklu.
- Guest editor for special issue “Informele en illegale economie” (Informal and illegal economy), Cahiers Politiestudies, 2013, 29, Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Maklu.
- Guest editor for special issue “Tides and currents of policing”, Cahiers Politiestudies, 2012, 25, Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Maklu.
- Guest editor for special issue "Politieleiderschap: Reflecties op politieleiders en hun professionaliteit” (Police leadership: Reflection on police leaders and their professionalism), Cahiers Politiestudies, 2010, 14, Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Maklu.
- Guest editor for special issue “Schalen & bestellen” (Scaling & Organizing), Orde van de Dag, 2012, 57, Mechelen: Kluwer.
- Policy-impact:
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- 4-8 November 2013 – Invited speaker for the 18th Meeting of the Pollution Crime Working Group - INTERPOL Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Events, Nairobi, Kenya
- 21 June 2013 – Conference in the Flemish Parliament: Governance of environmental flows.
- 21 May 2013 – Hearing in the Flemish Parliament, Environment Commission
- Invited lectures:
- Spring 2015: Antwerp University, Belgium
- Spring 2015: Colorado State University, USA
- Spring 2014: Colgate University, USA
- Fall 2013: Cornell University, USA
- Fall 2012: Economic and Social Research Council Green Crime Seminar Series, United Kingdom
- Spring 2013: Canadian Institute of Resources Law (CIRL), University of Calgary, Canada
- Spring 2012: Université de Liège, Belgium
- 2011-2012: Ghent University, Belgium
- Spring 2010: Cornell University, USA
Conferences
- Organizer of panel sessions on green/environmental criminology European Society of Criminology 2011-2012
- Presenter of papers at the annual European Society of Criminology conferences 2008-2012; British Society of Criminology conference 2011; American Society of Criminology 2013
Publications
- Bisschop, L. (2015). Governance of the illegal trade in e-waste and tropical timber: case studies on transnational environmental crime. Green Criminology Series, Ashgate Publishing. (ISBN 978-1-4724-1540-0)
- Bisschop, L. (2015). “Challenges in governing the international trade in hazardous waste”, Scottish Justice Matters, 3(1) Environmental Crime and Justice, 30-32 Open Access: http://scottishjusticematters.com/wp-content/uploads/SJM_3_1_Mar2015_LoRes.pdf
- Bisschop, L. (2014). “How E-waste challenges environmental governance”, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 3(2), 82-96. https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/178
- Bisschop, L. (2015). “Facilitators of Environmental Crime. Corporations and Governments in the Port of Antwerp” In J. van Erp, W. Huisman & G. Vande Walle. Routledge Handbook of White-Collar Crime in Europe, pp. 246-259
- Bisschop L. (2014) “Illegal e-waste transports: exploring their harmfulness, scale, social organization and governance.” In R. White, T. Spapens & M. Kluin. Environmental crime and its victims. Conference Proceedings, Ashgate, Green Criminology Series, pp. 171-184.
- Bisschop, L. (2013) Elektronisch afval op de grens tussen legaal en illegaal: Cahiers Politiestudies: Illegale en informele economie 29, 131-146, Maklu.
- Boels, D., Bisschop, L. Kleemans, E. & vander Vijver, C. (2013). Illegale en informele economie, Cahiers Politiestudies 29, Maklu.
- Easton, M., & Bisschop, L. (2013). Comparative perspectives on the policing-science nexus. In P. Ponsaers & L. Gunther Moor (Eds.), De Deinzer Scheepsalmanak. Verslag van de conferentie ‘Tides and currents in police theories’ op 12 en 13 december 2012 in Deinze (pp. 70-87). Den Haag/Gent: Centrum voor Politiestudies/Stichting Maatschappij en Veiligheid.
- Bisschop, L. & Van de Walle, G. (2013). Environmental victimization and conflict resolution. A case study of e-waste. In Wyatt, T., Walters, R. & Westerhuis, D. Debates in green criminology: Power, Justice and Environmental Harm. (pp.34-54) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Bisschop, L. (2013). Governance throughout the flows. Case study research on the illegal tropical timber trade. In P. Saitta, J. Shapland & A. Verhage (Eds.), Getting by or getting rich? The formal, informal and illegal economy in a globalized world (pp.167-199). The Hague: Eleven.
- Bisschop, L. (2013). Go with the e-waste flows. The governance reality of illegal transports of e-waste in a European trade hub. In P. van Duyne, J. Harvey, G. Antonopoulos, K. von Lampe, A. Maljević & J. Spencer (Eds.), Human dimensions in organised crime, money laundering and corruption. (pp.393-424) Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers.
- Bisschop, L. & Verhage, A. (2012). The complex(ity) of policing dirty crime. Cahiers Politiestudies: Tides & Currents of Policing, 2012-4, 25, Antwerpen: Maklu, pp.273-290.
- Devroe, E., Ponsaers, P., Gunther Moor, L., Greene, J., Skinns, L., Bisschop, L., Verhage, A. and Bacon, M. (Eds.). (2012). Tides and currents in police theories. Journal of Police Studies (Cahiers Politiestudies). Volume 2012-4(25), Antwerpen: Maklu.
- Bisschop, L. (2012). Is it all going to waste? Illegal transports of e-waste in a European trade hub. Crime, Law and Social Change, 58(3), 221-249.
- Bisschop, L. (2012): Out of the woods: the illegal trade in tropical timber and a European trade hub, Global Crime, 13(3), 191-212.
- Vande Walle, G., & Bisschop, L. (2012). The securitization of environmental conflicts, a blessing or a curse? In G. Vande Walle, E. Van den Herrewegen & N. Zurawski (Eds.), Crime, Security and Surveillance - effects for the surveillant and the surveilled (pp. 209-228). Den Haag: Groene Gras - Eleven Publishers.
- Bisschop, L., & Vande Walle, G. (2012). Transnational environmental crime and its governance. Case study research on illegal transports of e-waste and tropical timber. In P. Ponsaers (Ed.), Social Analysis of Security (pp. 83-102). Den Haag: Eleven Publishers.
- Ponsaers, P., Bruggeman, W., Bisschop, L., & De Kimpe, S. (Eds.). (2012). Themanummer Bestellen en Schalen (Vol. 57). Mechelen: Kluwer.
- Bruggeman, W., Ponsaers, P., De Kimpe, S., & Bisschop, L. (2012). Wat met de politieschaal en het politiebestel anno 2012 in ons land? Orde van de Dag, 57(Themanummer Bestellen en Schalen), 2-4.
- Ponsaers, P., Bruggeman, W., Bisschop, L., & De Kimpe, S. (2012). Locomotieftekst. Orde van de Dag, 57(Themanummer Bestellen en Schalen), 6-11.
- Bisschop, L., Bruggeman, W., De Kimpe, S., Easton, M., Maesschalck, J., (2011). Hoofdcommissarissen in ontwikkeling - Een verkenning van visies, instrumenten en structuren voor de ontwikkeling van politieleiders in België. Reeks Burger bestuur & beleid. Brugge: Vanden Broele (ISBN: 978 90 4960 499 8).
- Bisschop, L. (2011). Transnational environmental crime: exploring (un)charted territory. In M. Cools, B. De Ruyver, M. Easton, L. Pauwels, P. Ponsaers, T. Vander Beken, F. Vander Laenen, G. Vande Walle, A. Verhage, G. Vermeulen & G. Vynckier (Eds.), EU Criminal Justice, Financial & Economic Crime: New Perspectives, Governance of Security Research Papers (Vol. 5, pp. 155-183). Antwerpen: Maklu.
- Bisschop, L., Devroe, E., Easton, M., Ponsaers, P. & Verhage, A. (2010). Politie in de Maatschappij – Bakens voor de toekomst. De kerk in het midden houden. Panopticon 31 (6), 54-64.
- Bisschop, L., & De Kimpe, S. (2009). Policing and leadership : the case of the Belgian chiefs of the local police. In M. Cools, S. De Kimpe, B. De Ruyver, M. Easton, L. Pauwels, P. Ponsaers, T. Vander Beken, F. Vander Laenen, G. Vande Walle & G. Vermeulen (Eds.), Readings on criminal justice, criminal law & policing (Vol. 2, pp. 265-291). Antwerpen: Maklu.
- Bisschop, L. (2010). Corporate environmental responsibility and criminology. Crime, Law and Social Change, 53(4), 349-364. doi: 10.1007/s10611-009-9227-8
- Bisschop, L. (2010). Restorative Policing and Community Engagement. In P. Van Calster & L. Gunther Moor (Eds.), Herstelrechtelijke politiezorg (pp. 143-148). Dordrecht: Stichting SMVP Producties.
- Bisschop, L. (2010). Verslag Workshop Opsporing en Politie naar aanleiding van het Jubileumcongres 30 jaar Panopticon’. Panopticon, 31(1), 46-48.
- Bisschop, L., Buijnink, K., De Kimpe, S., & Noordegraaf, M. (2010). Politieleiderschap: Reflecties op politieleiders en hun professionaliteit (Vol. 2010/1-14). Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Maklu.
- Bisschop, L., De Kimpe, S., & Ponsaers, P. (2010). Korpschefs. Rapport van het onderzoek naar het profiel en de evaluatie van de korpschefs van de lokale politie in België. In L. Bisschop, K. Buijnink, S. De Kimpe & M. Noordegraaf (Eds.), Politieleiderschap: Reflecties op politieleiders en hun professionaliteit (Vol. 2010/1 - 14, pp. 35-178). Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Maklu.
- Bisschop, L., De Kimpe, S., & Ponsaers, P. (2010). Leiderschap in de boeken. Een literatuurstudie naar leiderschap en politieleiderschap. In L. Bisschop, K. Buijnink, S. De Kimpe & M. Noordegraaf (Eds.), Politieleiderschap: Reflecties op politieleiders en hun professionaliteit (Vol. 2010/1 - 14, pp. 11-34). Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Maklu.
- Ahic, J., Bisschop, L., Maeseele, T., Klima, N., & Van Droogenbroeck, S. (2009). Former Yugoslavia: Research Development and Surprises. In P. Ponsaers, C. Tanghe & L. Van Outrive (Eds.), Regards sur la police - Insights on police, Un quart de siècle de recherche sur la police en Europe et dans le monde anglo-saxon - Quarter of a century research on police in Europe and the anglo-saxon world (pp. 487-520). Bruxelles/Brussels: Bruylant.
- Punch, M., & Bisschop, L. (2009). United Kingdom: Legacy of the founders of research on police. In P. PONSAERS, C. TANGHE & L. VAN OUTRIVE (Eds.), Regards sur la police - Insights on police, Un quart de siècle de recherche sur la police en Europe et dans le monde anglo-saxon - Quarter of a century research on police in Europe and the anglo-saxon world (pp. 35-94). Bruxelles/Brussels: Bruylant.
Research items
- Bisschop, L. (2014). Surviving in the informal economy or victim to externalized harm? Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Conference 2014, San Francisco.
- Bisschop, L. (2014). Chair of Panel Session “Building a More Nuanced Understanding of Crime, Victimization and Green Criminology” at American Society of Criminology Conference 2014, San Francisco
- Reuter, E. & Bisschop, L. (2014). Keeping the Horn on the Rhino. Paper presented at the ESRC Green Criminology Conference, London South Bank University, 7th - 8th July 201, London
- Bisschop, L. (2013, November 22). Actors in the port: Facilitating or preventing environmental crime? Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology Conference 2013, Atlanta.
- Bisschop, L. (2013, November 6-7). Go with the E-waste Flow: Environmental Governance in a European Trade Hub. Presentation in the Working Group on Pollution at the Interpol-UNEP Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Bisschop, L. (2013, 30 October). (Transnational) Environmental Governance. The case of e-waste. Invited lecture in course Environmental Governance at Cornell University
- Bisschop. L. (2013, October 4). Electronic waste, brown crime and the EU. Brown Crime: Hazardous Waste and Pollution Conference - Northumbria University, Newcastle – ESRC Green Criminology Research Seminar Series
- Bisschop, L. (2013, June 27th). Governance of transnational environmental crime. Case study research on the illegal trade in e-waste and tropical timber. Paper presented at the Vereniging voor de Sociaalwetenschappelijke bestudering van het Recht.
- Bisschop, L. (2013, May 8-9). Go with the e-waste flow. The governance of illegal transports of e-waste in a European trade hub. Presented at the Maritime Security Workshop, in Brisbane (Australia), organised by the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security
- Bisschop, L. (2013, April 1st). The Illegal Transport of Electronic Waste: A Case Study of a European Trade Hub. Paper presented at the Canadian Institute of Resources Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary.
- Bisschop, L. (2012). Governance of transnational environmental crime: opportunities and challenges. Paper presented at the CPS-SMVP Conference Tides & Currents in Police Studies, Deinze.
- Bisschop, L. (2012). Go with the flows. Illegal e-waste transports and a European trade hub. Paper presented at the Conference on Environmental Crime and its Victims, Delft.
- Bisschop, L. (2012). The Illegal Trade in Tropical Timber in a European Trade Hub. An Analysis of its Governance Reality. Paper presented at the Conference on Environmental Crime and its Victims, Delft.
- Vande Walle, G., & Bisschop, L. (2012). Conflict resolution and environmental harm: case-study of e-waste dumping Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology, Bilbao.
- Bisschop, L. (2012). Go with the e-waste flows: A nodal and networked governance analysis in a European trade hub. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology, Bilbao.
- Bisschop, L. (2012). Social organization and governance of the illegal trade in tropical timber in a European trade hub. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Conference of European Society of Criminology, Bilbao.
- Bisschop, L. (2012). Go with the e-waste flows: A nodal and networked governance analysis. Paper presented at the Cross Border Crime Colloquium 2012.
- Vande Walle, G., & Bisschop, L. (2012, May 20-24). Conflict resolution in case of ecological harm. Case-study of dumping e-waste. Paper presented at the Justice for Victims: Cross-cultural perspectives on conflict, trauma and reconciliation - 14th International Symposium World Society of Victimology.
- Bisschop, L. (2012 March 7th). Guest lecture: Transnational Environmental Crime. Case study of illegal transports of e-waste. Course: Criminalité internationale. Université de Liège - Prof. dr. André Lemaître.
- Bisschop, L. (2012 March 2nd). Guest lecture: Security & ecology: Part 2: Case study of illegal transports of e-waste. Course: Governance of Security. University College Ghent - Prof. dr. Marleen Easton & dr. Gudrun Vande Walle.
- Bisschop, L. (2012 March 1st). Guest lecture: Transnational Environmental Crime. Case study of illegal transports of e-waste. Course: Financial-Economic Crime. Ghent University - Prof. dr. Paul Ponsaers.
- Bisschop, L. (2012 February 24th). Guest lecture: Security & ecology: Part 1: Transnational Environmental Crime and its governance. Course: Governance of Security. University College Ghent - Prof. dr. Marleen Easton & dr. Gudrun Vande Walle.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 October 21st). A thin line between legal en illegal? Results of a case study research into e-waste and tropical timber. Paper presented at the International workshop on formal, informal, and criminal economy, a comparative outlook on Northern and Southern Europe, University of Messina, Faculty of Political Sciences, Messina, Sicily, Italy.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 September). Organization and chair of panel session at the European Society of Criminology Conference 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania: Green/Environmental Crime (in cooperation with the ESC working group on organizational crime (EUROC). .
- Bisschop, L. (2011 September 22nd). Illegal transports of e-waste. Results of a case study research. Paper presented at the Session: Green/Environmental Crime 2 - European Society of Criminology Conference. Rethinking Crime and Punishment in Europe. , Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 July 6th). Flows of transnational environmental crime: Case study research on e-waste and timber. Paper presented at the Session: Diversity of Green Crime - British Society of Criminology Conference: Economies and Insecurities of Crime and Justice, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 May 4th). Guest lecture: Securitization of ecology: Part 2: Transnational Environmental Crime and its governance. Course: Governance of Security. University College Ghent - Prof. dr. Marleen Easton & dr. Gudrun Vande Walle.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 April 27). Guest Lecture: Transnational environmental crime and its governance: Case study research on illegal transports of waste and natural resources. Course: Wetenschappelijk werk. University College Ghent - dr. Daniël Conickx.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 April 27th). Guest lecture: Securitization of ecology: Part 1: Phenomenon - Eco-Crime. Course: Governance of Security. University College Ghent - Prof. dr. Marleen Easton & dr. Gudrun Vande Walle.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 March 10th and 11th). Transnational environmental crime and its governance: Case study research on illegal transports of waste and natural resources. Outline of PhD research. Paper presented at the PhD Midwinter Seminar, Organised by the Police Academy of the Netherlands, the Department of Governance Studies of the VU University, the Defence Academy of the Netherlands, and the Research Group ‘Governing & Policing Security’ (GaPS), University College Ghent.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 February 24th). Guest lecture: (Transnational) Environmental Crime and Green Criminology. Course: Financial-Economic Crime. Ghent University - Prof. dr. Paul Ponsaers & Prof. dr. Marc Cools.
- Bisschop, L. (2011 February 11th). Stromen van transnationale milieucriminaliteit. Verkenning van de Belgische context. Paper presented at the Sessie: Controle op hedendaagse vormen van organisatiecriminaliteit. Derde Criminologisch Forum Vlaamse Vereniging voor Criminologie: (In)tolerantie in grootstedelijke context, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
- Bisschop, L., Verhage, A., Devroe, E., Easton, M., & Ponsaers, P. (2010 October 19th). Persontmoeting "Politie in de maatschappij – Bakens voor de toekomst, De kerk in het midden houden" - Open brief mbt. de evaluatie van de politiehervorming. Boekenforum Maklu, Somersstraat, Antwerpen.
- Bisschop, L. (2010 September 11th). Transnational environmental crime and its governance: gaps in theory and research. Paper presented at the Session: Green Criminology. Xth Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Liège, Belgium.
- Bisschop, L. (2010 July 2nd). Transnationale milieucriminaliteit en governance of environmental flows: (on)ontgonnen theoretisch en empirisch terrein? Paper presented at the NVK Congres 2010 "Financiële criminaliteit" - Nederlandse Vereniging voor Criminologie, Leiden, Netherlands.
- Bisschop, L. (2012 March 7th). Guest lecture: Transnational Environmental Crime. Case study of illegal transports of e-waste. Course: Criminalité internationale. Université de Liège - Prof. dr. André Lemaître.
- Maesschalck, J., & Bisschop, L. (2010 April 20th). Politieleiderschap: een vak(ontwikkeling) apart? Paper presented at the Centrum voor Politiestudies studiedag "Moet de nieuwe politielei(j)der niet opstaan?", Brussel, Belgium.
- Bisschop, L. (2010 April 13th). Corporate environmental responsibility in the European Union: exploring stakeholders' opinions. Course: Corporate Social Responsibility: Human Rights, Labor, and the Environment - Prof. dr. Lance Compa. School of Industrial Labour Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
- De Kimpe, S., & Bisschop, L. (2009 December 15). Hoofdcommissarissen in ontwikkeling. Een onderzoek naar competentievervolmaking bij politieleiders. Benelux-universiteit, Eindhoven - Prof. dr. Willy Bruggeman.
- Bisschop, L., & De Kimpe, S. (2009 September 11th). Chiefs of Police in Development. A perspective on the improvement of competences of police leaders. Paper presented at the IXth Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Bisschop, L., & De Kimpe, S. (2009 September 11th). Leadership and the police: on the profile and the evaluation of local police chiefs in Belgium. Paper presented at the IXth Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Bisschop, L. (2009 June 19th). Leiderschap en politie: over het profiel en de evaluatie van de korpschefs van de lokale politie van België. Paper presented at the NVK Congres 2009 "Criminologie en media". Nederlandse Vereniging voor Criminologie, Leiden, Netherlands.
- Bisschop, L. (2009 February 3rd). Postersessie: Hoofdcommissarissen in ontwikkeling. Een onderzoek naar competentievervolmaking bij politieleiders. . Paper presented at the Tweede Criminologische Forum:"Etniciteit, diversiteit en criminaliteit". Vlaamse Vereniging voor Criminologie, Leuven, Belgium.
- Bisschop, L. (2009 February 3rd). Een onderzoek naar het profiel en de evaluatie van de korpschefs van de lokale politie. Paper presented at the Tweede Criminologische Forum:"Etniciteit, diversiteit en criminaliteit". Vlaamse Vereniging voor Criminologie, Leuven, Belgium.
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Teaching Experience
- 2014-...: Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice - http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/profiles/law_police_science.aspx?key=[email]=%27lbisschop@jjay.cuny.edu%27
- 2013-2104: Post-doctoral researcher - Ghent University (15%)
- 2012-…2015: Supervisor of master thesis students - Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and Ghent University (Belgium)
- 2011-2014: Lecturer in distance learning International Master in Criminal Justice, Governance and Police Science - Ruhr University Bochum (Germany)
- 2010-2013: Researcher and Teaching Assistant in Master in Governance and Public Administration - University College Ghent (Belgium)
- January-April 2013: Visiting fellow, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary (Canada)
- 2008-2009: Lecturer in anti-corruption training for the Belgian customs organization
- 2008-2009: Researcher at Interuniversity Center for Police Studies - Study: Police leaders in development (commissioned by the Belgian Ministry of the Interior).
- 2007-2008: Researcher at Ghent University - Study: Police leadership in the Belgian local police (commissioned by the Belgian Ministry of the Interior).