Tom Daems

Tom Daems is Professor of Criminology (hoogleraar criminologie) at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), Faculty of Law, KU Leuven. Previously he was Associate Professor of Criminology at LINC (2014-2020) and Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology of Law at Ghent University (2012-2014). He has been a visiting scholar at the universities of Edinburgh (2009) and Nottingham (2010) as well as at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2014 and 2018).

Tom Daems studied (European) criminology and political science at KU Leuven and LSE. Over the years he has developed a particular interest in sociological, legal and normative questions related to punishment. Part of his Ph.D.-thesis was published as Making Sense of Penal Change in the Clarendon Studies in Criminology-Series (2008, Oxford University Press). For this book he was awarded the Willem Nagel Prize (Dutch Society of Criminology) as well as the Denis Carrol Prize (International Society for Criminology) in 2009.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD KU Leuven (2003 — 2007)
• Master of Science - MS The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2002 — 2003)
• Advanced Studies Master KU Leuven (2000 — 2002)
• Candidate KU Leuven (2000 — 2002)
• Erasmus / Socrates Intensivprogramm "Strafrecht und Kriminologie im europäischen Vergleich" Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (2000 — 2000)
• Licentiate KU Leuven (1998 — 2000)
• Candidate KU Leuven (1996 — 1998)

Companies

• Professor of Criminology KU Leuven (2020)
• Associate Professor of Criminology KU Leuven (2014 — 2020)
• Visiting Scholar The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2018 — 2018)
• Visiting Scholar The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2014 — 2014)
• Assistant Professor of Criminology and Sociology of Law Ghent University (2012 — 2014)
• Senior Research and Teaching Fellow Ghent University (2011 — 2012)
• Postdoctoral Fellow FWO KU Leuven (2008 — 2011)
• Visiting Scholar University of Nottingham (2010 — 2010)
• Visiting Fellow Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) The University of Edinburgh (2009 — 2009)