Frank Bovenkerk

Prof. dr. Frank Bovenkerk (1943) is cultural anthropologist by education. From 1988 through 2008 he worked at the Willem Pompe Institute for criminal law and criminology at the University of Utrecht as professor of criminology. He stays related to this institute as emeritus.
From 2009 he occupies the FORUM Frank J. Buijs chair on radicalisation studies at the University of Amsterdam, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies.

Bovenkerk published on international migration, multicultural societies and researched race discrimination on the labor market in the 70s and 80s. During his Utrecht professorship he has been engaged in research and publication on organized crime, drugs and crime, crime and multicultural society and he has written on a variety of topics in criminology. He became generally known in the Netherlands trough his book on a Dutch pentita who collaborated with police and justice authorities in Italy: La bella Bettien; The Turkish mafia (together with Y. Yesilgöz; Misdaadprofielen; Loverboys (with others). At the time of his valedictory speech as professor in Utrecht in 2009 a Liber Amicorum was published with a title that demonstrates the many-sidedness of his work: Diverse kwesties.

He now publishes on radicalisation, ethnic profiling and desistance from criminal organisations. He is developing a programme of education and research on the evaluation of the effectiveness of anti-radicalisation policies.

Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies
Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237
1012 DL Amsterdam
Phone: 020 525 4781
F.Bovenkerk@uu.nl