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About Geert Slabbekoorn
Currently an analyst in public security, previously researcher on dark web drug trade and related use. Occasional Twitter user, regular runner and hiker.NBN Episodes hosted by Geert:
September 16, 2022
The Psychedelic Handbook
Entering the world of psychedelic drugs can be challenging, and many aren't sure where to start. As research continues to expand and legalization loom…
July 15, 2022
Blurring Intelligence Crime
Willem Bart de Lint's Blurring Intelligence Crime: A Critical Forensics (Springer, 2022) explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent bo…
June 30, 2022
Ports, Crime and Security
The COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and the US-China trade dispute have heightened interest in the geopolitics and security of modern ports. Ports are whe…
June 15, 2022
Hysteria
According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Poli…
June 14, 2022
Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research
Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads (Routledge, 2022) reviews the roots of the intersection between machine learnin…
March 2, 2022
Nicole Rafter
Nicole Rafter (Routledge, 2021) is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biologi…
December 14, 2021
Drug Policy
Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others), and using examples fro…
November 24, 2021
The Drug Expert
Craig W. Stevens' book The Drug Expert: A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings (Academic Press, 2021) targets academic and i…
November 12, 2021
Criminal Futures
Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese's Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work (Routledge, 2020) explores how predictive policing tr…
October 20, 2021
The Opioid Epidemic in the United States
The current opioid epidemic in the United States began in the mid-1990s with the introduction of a new drug, OxyContin, viewed as a safer and more eff…
October 11, 2021
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans
The Mexican Revolution gave rise to the Mexican nation-state as we know it today. Rural revolutionaries took up arms against the Díaz dictatorship in …
October 8, 2021
Mexican Drug Violence
With an estimated 250,000 people killed in 15 years, the Mexican drug war is the most violent conflict in the Western world. It shows no sign of abati…
September 20, 2021
Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway
Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, Aleksandra Bartoszko's book Treati…
June 15, 2021
Narcosubmarines
Javier Guerrero's "Narcosubmarines: Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs" (Palgrave, 2020) is about the encounters of Colom…
April 14, 2021
Chemical Youth
Anita Hardon's Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) explores how young people engage with chem…
March 31, 2021
Drug Smuggler Nation
Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs…