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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.

Geert Slabbekoorn works as an analyst in the field of public security. In addition he has published on different aspects of dark web drug trade in Belgium. Find him on twitter, tweeting all things drug related @GeertJS.

NBN Episodes hosted by Geert:

Drugs, Addiction and Recovery September 16, 2022

The Psychedelic Handbook

A Practical Guide to Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA, and DMT/Ayahuasca

Rick Strassman

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Entering the world of psychedelic drugs can be challenging, and many aren't sure where to start. As research continues to expand and legalization looms on the horizon for psychedelics like …
National Security July 15, 2022

Blurring Intelligence Crime

A Critical Forensics

Willem Bart de Lint

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Willem Bart de Lint's Blurring Intelligence Crime: A Critical Forensics (Springer, 2022) explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent both on social order and big, constitutive crime. An act …
National Security June 30, 2022

Ports, Crime and Security

Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World

Anna Sergi, Alexandria Reid, Luca Storti, and Marleen Easton

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
The COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and the US-China trade dispute have  heightened interest in the geopolitics and security of modern ports.  Ports are where contemporary societal dilemmas converge: the (de)regulation of international …
Law June 15, 2022

Hysteria

Crime, Media, and Politics

Marc Schuilenburg

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics (Routledge, 2021) argues that hysteria …
Policing, Incarceration, and Reform June 14, 2022

Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research

At the Crossroads

Gian Maria Campedelli

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads (Routledge, 2022) reviews the roots of the intersection between machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and research on crime; examines the current state …
Law March 2, 2022

Nicole Rafter

Chase Burton

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
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 biological theories of crime causation as …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery December 14, 2021

Drug Policy

Alison Ritter

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others), and using examples from across the globe, Alison Ritter's Drug Policy (Routledge, 2021) provides a detailed …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery November 24, 2021

The Drug Expert

A Practical Guide to the Impact of Drug Use in Legal Proceedings

Craig W. Stevens

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
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 industry pharmacologists, pharmacology graduate students, and professionals and …
Law November 12, 2021

Criminal Futures

Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work

Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese's Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work (Routledge, 2020) explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 20, 2021

The Opioid Epidemic in the United States

Missed Opportunities and Policy Failures

Kant Patel and Mark E. Rushefsky

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
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 effective opiate for chronic …
Latin American Studies October 11, 2021

Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans

Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910-1940

Nathaniel Morris

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
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 support of agrarian reform, in defense …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery October 8, 2021

Mexican Drug Violence

Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty

Teun Voeten

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
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 abating. In Mexican …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery September 20, 2021

Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway

The Pharmaceutical Other

Aleksandra Bartoszko

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, Aleksandra Bartoszko's book Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other (Routledge, 2021) casts a critical light …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery June 15, 2021

Narcosubmarines

Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs

Javier Guerrero C.

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Javier Guerrero's "Narcosubmarines: Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs" (Palgrave, 2020) is about the encounters of Colombian drug smugglers and the Colombian Navy, both in the …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery April 14, 2021

Chemical Youth

Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

Anita Hardon

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Anita Hardon's Chemical Youth: Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020) explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and …
Drugs, Addiction and Recovery March 31, 2021

Drug Smuggler Nation

Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920-95

Stephen Snelders

Hosted by Geert Slabbekoorn
Why did the international drug regulatory regime of the twentieth century fail to stop an explosive increase in trade and consumption of illegal drugs? This study investigates the histories of …