Margot De Koster

Margo De Koster is part-time professor at the Criminology Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, lecturer in Historical criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and vice-coordinator of the Belgian research network “Justice & Populations: The Belgian Experience in International Perspective, 1795-2015” (IAP P7/22, Belgian Science Policy Office, 2012-2017, coord. Prof. Xavier Rousseaux, UCL). She studied history and sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where she worked from 1998 to 2006 at the History Department as a researcher of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific research, and obtained her PhD on girl delinquency in the interwar period, in 2003. She conducts historical-criminological research on juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, girls and women in criminal justice, urban policing, and transgressive uses of urban public space.