Short bio
Pieter Leloup is a research professor of Criminology at the Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP), Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University, and the Crime & Society (CRIS) research group, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
He holds a PhD in Criminology (Joint PhD Ghent University-Vrije Universiteit Brussel), MSC in History (Ghent University, 2009), Criminology (Ghent University, 2012), and postgraduate degree in Global Security (King’s College London, 2023).
His main research focusses on policing, private security and historical criminology. The principal focus of his work has been on historical patterns of (private) security provision and changing relationships between state and private security actors since the nineteenth century until today.
He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Sheffield, UK, and visiting scholar at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is a member of the International advisory board for Policing and Society. An International Journal of Research and Policy.
Work details
- EMAIL: pieter.leloup@ugent.be
- TELEPHONE SECRETARIAT: +32 9 264 69 30
- ADRESS: Universiteitstraat 4, Ghent, Belgium
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9982-3116
Selected societal impact activities
Selected media
- 2015 – Fokus Magazine, Veiligheid in de samenleving – Article: Over risico’s en percepties
Selected events
- 17-18/01/2019 – Leeds – Everyday Political Economies of Plural Policing Conference
- 3/09/2018 – London – History and Policy seminars, Home Office series
- 10-11/07/2017 – Leeds – Private Security and the Modern State Conference
Expertise
- Historical criminology
- Private security
Selected projects
- 2015-2019 – The development of the private security industry in Belgium (1907-1990): A historical-criminological perspective on contemporary changes in security and crime control
- 2019-2022 – Postdoctoral project – Private security in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom: A cross-national comparative analysis of late modern policy trends in a Continental European and Anglo-American context