dr. GJ (Gijs) Custers, MSc

Biography

Gijs Custers is an assistant professor at the Department of Law, Society and Crime of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

He is currently developing the following lines of research:

1) How various social processes (e.g., gentrification, racialisation, criminalisation) affect neighbourhood stigma over time, and the role of different actors in this context. Through analysing a large corpus of media articles, Gijs will gain more insight into the causes and consequences of neighbourhood stigma, and how it varies across large scales of time and space.

2) How the label 'mild intellectual disability' (licht verstandelijke beperking) is used in the Dutch criminal justice system 

Gijs further investigates what the effects of social policy are on educational mobility. In particular, he examines what the contribution of the National Program Rotterdam South (NPRZ), one of the largest urban policies in Dutch history, is in improving educational outcomes in Rotterdam.

His previous work includes studies of social inequality in social class, gentrification, neighbourhood effects, and citizen participation.

Gijs is experienced in applying quantitative methods (including matching techniques, multilevel modelling, latent class analysis, and GIS) and qualitative methods (interviewing). He is also interested in how computational text analysis can be used to study representations across time.

Erasmus School of Law

Assistant professor | Criminology
Email
custers@law.eur.nl

Work

  • Kjell Noordzij & Gijs Custers (1 March 2022) - Wat politici kunnen leren van huisartsen om vertrouwen van Rotterdammers te winnen
  • M Kooistra, Jitske Verkerk, José Nederhand, Gijs Custers & Steven Blok (1 January 2018) - Initiatief (editors)

  • Gijs Custers (2017) - Worden we lui van een basisinkomen? (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Popular

Fair Welfare

Start date approval
March 2024
End date approval
February 2027
Place
ROTTERDAM
Description
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Urban issues, culture and crime

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2024
Course Code
RIMC04

Methodology and Statistics I

Level
bachelor 1
Year Level
bachelor 1
Year
2024
Course Code
RC103

Crime and Society

Level
bachelor 1
Year Level
bachelor 1
Year
2024
Course Code
RC108

Urban Issues, Culture and Crime

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2024
Course Code
RQ88

Thesis Master Criminology

Level
master
Year Level
master
Year
2024
Course Code
RS133

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