dr. mr. A.A. (Alwin) van Dijk

Alwin van Dijk (1973) is lecturer in criminal law at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology. He graduated both in law and psychology at the University of Groningen. In 2008 he received his doctorate in law (cum laude). His dissertation is about criminal liability and the justification of punishment. The dissertation was awarded with the Praemium Erasmianum prize and the Modderman Prize. In 2015 he edited (with Wolswijk) ‘Criminal Liability for Serious Traffic Offences’. In 2017 he published a book in which the rational choice theory was applied to the analysis of intent in criminal law.