Stockholm Prize in Criminology to be Awarded for Global Research on Crime Victims

The 2012 Stockholm Prize in Criminology has been awarded to Professor Jan van Dijk ofthe University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, for his sustained leadership of the InternationalCrime Victims Survey (ICVS) since 1989. Professor van Dijk will receive the prize at aceremony in Stockholm on June 12, 2012.Clearing The Fog of CrimeThe International Jury’s chair compared the work of the 2012 Stockholm Prize winner toclearing away a “fog” of confusion about whether crime is becoming more or less frequent orserious. Prompted by human reactions to a wide range of information about crime,