Dr. Amy Nivette

Sjoerd Groenmangebouw
Padualaan 14
Kamer -C2.01
3584 CH Utrecht

Dr. Amy Nivette

Associate Professor
Sociology
+31 30 253 1922
a.e.nivette@uu.nl

 

 

 

Publications

2024

Scholarly publications

Siu, J. C. L., Zhong, H., & Nivette, A. (2024). Exploring the Impact of Routine Activity and Financial Strain on Fraud Victimization During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong. Asian Journal of Criminology, 19(3), 441-458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11417-024-09438-w
Trajtenberg, N., Fossati, S., Diaz, C., Nivette, A. E., Aguilar, R., Ahven, A., Andrade, L., Amram, S., Ariel, B., Arosemena Burbano, M. J., Astolfi, R., Baier, D., Bark, H. M., Beijers, J. E. H., Bergman, M., Borges, D., Breeztke, G., Cano, I., Concha Eastman, I. A., ... Eisner, M. P. (2024). The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on crime across the world. Crime Science, 13(1), Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-024-00220-y
Nivette, A., Güçlü, I., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (2024). Normative, expressive, and personal factors associated with cooperation with police: Findings from a longitudinal cohort study. Journal of Criminal Justice, 93, Article 102213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102213
Nivette, A., Bechtiger, L., Ribeaud, D., Shanahan, L., & Eisner, M. (2024). Assessing the Effect of First-time Police Contact on Internalizing Problems Among Youth in Zurich, Switzerland: A Quasi-experimental Analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53(8), 1711-1727. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-024-01986-9
Janssen, J., Lemieux, A., Nivette, A., & Ruiter, S. (2024). A scoping review on what motivates individuals to illegally harvest wildlife. Global Crime, 25(2), 97-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2024.2342780
Spiegel, T., & Nivette, A. (2024). A four-cohort study testing the relative impact of take-home and in-class examination on students' academic performance and wellbeing. European Journal of Psychology of Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00821-w
Nivette, A., de Weegh, A. O., & Jaspers, E. (2024). Intergenerational Transmission of Trust in Criminal Justice Authorities Among Late Adolescents in the Netherlands. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 10(1), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00245-y
Nägel, C., Nivette, A., & Czymara, C. (2024). Do jihadist terrorist attacks cause changes in institutional trust? A multi-site natural experiment. European Journal of Political Research, 63(2), 411-432. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12612
Nivette, A., Nägel, C., & Stan, A. (2024). The use of experimental vignettes in studying police procedural justice: a systematic review. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 20(1), 151–186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09529-7

2023

Scholarly publications

Abreu Minero, V., & Nivette, A. (2023). Changing Patterns of Domestic Homicide During Lockdown: Interrupted Time-Series Analysis in England and Wales. Homicide Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10887679231190032
Nivette, A., Op de weegh, A., & Nägel, C. (2023). Measuring everyday experiences with the police in the Netherlands: An experience sampling pilot study. Methodological Innovations, 16(3), 315-328. https://doi.org/10.1177/20597991231202854
Nivette, A., Nägel, C., & Gilbert, E. (2023). Examining the effects of the killing of George Floyd by police in the United States on attitudes of Black Londoners: a replication. Police Practice and Research, 24(5), 575-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2023.2185241
Trajtenberg, N., de Ribera, O. S., Nivette, A., León-Mayer, E., & Neumann, C. S. (2023). Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 87, 1-9. Article 101867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2023.101867
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/428603/1_s2.0_S0160252723000109_main.pdf?sequence=1
Nägel, C., & Nivette, A. (2023). The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 1992. Journal of Criminal Justice, 85, Article 101989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101989
Nagel, C., & Nivette, A. E. (2023). Unexpected events during survey design and trust in the police: a systematic review. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 19(4), 891–917. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09508-y
Nägel, C., & Nivette, A. (2023). Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany. Policing and Society, 33(1), 64-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2022.2064857
Spiegel, T., & Nivette, A. (2023). The relative impact of in-class closed-book versus take-home open-book examination type on academic performance, student knowledge retention and wellbeing. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 48(1), 27-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2021.2016607

2022

Scholarly publications

Murray, A. L., Nivette, A., Obsuth, I., Mirman, J. H., Mirman, D., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (2022). Gender Differences in Cross-Informant Discrepancies in Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior: A Latent Difference Score Analysis. Psychological Assessment, 34(5), 409–418. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001091
Nivette, A., Obsuth, I., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (2022). Fair Teachers, Fair Police? Assessing the Pathways between Perceptions of Teacher and Police Authority in Childhood and Adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(2), 193–207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01537-6
Nivette, A., Echelmeyer, L., Weerman, F., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2022). Understanding Changes in Violent Extremist Attitudes During the Transition to Early Adulthood. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 38(4), 949–978. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-021-09522-9
Nivette, A., & Peres, M. F. T. (2022). Social Disorganization and Urban Homicide Rates: A Spatial-Temporal Analysis in São Paulo, Brazil 2000 to 2015. Homicide Studies, 26(3), 219–243. https://doi.org/10.1177/10887679211010883
Shanahan, L., Steinhoff, A., Bechtiger, L., Murray, A., Nivette, A. E., Hepp, U., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (2022). Emotional distress in young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence of risk and resilience from a longitudinal cohort study. Psychological Medicine, 52(5), 824-833. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329172000241X

2021

Scholarly publications

Leos-Toro, C., Ribeaud, D., Bechtiger, L., Steinhoff, A., Nivette, A., Murray, A. L., Hepp, U., Quednow, B., Eisner, M., & Shanahan, L. (2021). Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination Among Young Adults in Zurich, Switzerland, September 2020. International Journal of Public Health, 66, Article 643486. https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2021.643486
Nivette, A. E., Zahnow, R., Aguilar, R., Ahven, A., Amram, S., Ariel, B., Burbano, M. J. A., Astolfi, R., Baier, D., Bark, H. M., Beijers, J. E. H., Bergman, M., Breetzke, G., Concha-Eastman, I. A., Curtis-Ham, S., Davenport, R., Díaz, C., Fleitas, D., Gerell, M., ... Eisner, M. (2021). A global analysis of the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions on crime. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(7), 868-877. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01139-z
Nivette, A. (2021). Exploring the Availability and Potential of International Data for Criminological Study. International Criminology, 1(1), 70-77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43576-021-00009-y
Eisner, M., Averdijk, M., Kaiser, D., Murray, A. L., Nivette, A., Shanahan, L., van Gelder, J.-L., & Ribeaud, D. (2021). The association of polyvictimization with violent ideations in late adolescence and early adulthood: A longitudinal study. Aggressive Behavior, 47(4), 472-482. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21965
Nivette, A. E., Ribeaud, D., Murray, A., Steinhoff, A., Bechtiger, L., Hepp, U., Shanahan, L., & Eisner, M. (2021). Non-compliance with COVID-19-related public health measures among young adults in Switzerland: Insights from a longitudinal cohort study. Social Science and Medicine, 268, 1-9. Article 113370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113370
Huijsmans, T., Nivette, A. E., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2021). Social influences, peer delinquency, and low self-control: An examination of time-varying and reciprocal effects on delinquency over adolescence. European Journal of Criminology, 18(2), 192-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370819838720

2020

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. E., Trajtenberg, N., Eisner, M., Ribeaud, D., & Tourinho Peres, M. F. (2020). Assessing the measurement invariance and antecedents of legal cynicism in São Paulo, Zurich, and Montevideo. Journal of Adolescence, 83, 83-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.06.007
Nivette, A. E., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2020). Evaluating the shared and unique predictors of legal cynicism and police legitimacy from adolescence into early adulthood. Criminology, 58, 70-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12230
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/410795/Nivette_et_al_2020.pdf?sequence=1

Professional publications

Eisner, M., & Nivette, A. E. (2020). Violence and the Pandemic: Urgent Questions for Research. HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION. https://covidaba.com/en/violence-and-the-pandemic-urgent-questions-for-research/

2019

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A., Sutherland, A., Eisner, M., & Murray, J. (2019). Sex differences in adolescent physical aggression: Evidence from sixty-three low-and middle-income countries. Aggressive Behavior, 45(1), 82-92. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21799
Nivette, A. E., & Akoensi, T. D. (2019). Determinants of satisfaction with police in a developing country: a randomised vignette study. Policing and Society, 29(4), 471-487. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2017.1380643

2017

Scholarly publications

Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., & Nivette, A. E. (2017). Extremistische Einstellungen unter Jugendlichen: Ergebnisse der Zürcher Längsschnittstudie z-proso. In Zehntes Zürcher Präventionsforum. Kulturkonflikt und Identität – Radikalisierung und Kriminalität junger Migranten - Ansätze der Prävention (Vol. 184). Schulthess.
Tourinho Peres, M. F., & Nivette, A. (2017). Social disorganization and homicide mortality rate trajectories in Brazil between 1991 and 2010. Social Science and Medicine, 190, 92-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.08.013
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/357287/1_s2.0_S0277953617304859_main.pdf?sequence=1
Nivette, A., Eisner, M., & Ribeaud, D. (2017). Developmental Predictors of Violent Extremist Attitudes: A Test of General Strain Theory. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 54(6), 755-790. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427817699035

2016

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. E. (2016). INSTITUTIONAL INEFFECTIVENESS, ILLEGITIMACY, AND PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR VIGILANTISM IN LATIN AMERICA. Criminology, 54(1), 142-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12099
Eisner, M., Nivette, A., Murray, A. L., & Krisch, M. (2016). Achieving population-level violence declines: implications of the international crime drop for prevention programming. Journal of Public Health Policy, 37(supplement 1), 66-80. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-016-0004-5

2015

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. (2015). International and Comparative Criminology. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition (pp. 462-469). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.45063-4
Nivette, A. E. (2015). International/Comparative Criminology. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed., pp. 462-469). Elsevier.
Nivette, A. E., Eisner, M., Malti, T., & Ribeaud, D. (2015). The Social and Developmental Antecedents of Legal Cynicism. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 52(2), 270-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427814557038

Other output

Nivette, A. E., Karstedt, S., & Koch, M. (2015). Assassination Events: Patterns and Predictors across the Globe, 1975-2012. Paper presented at American Society of Criminology , Washington, D.C. , United States.

2014

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. (2014). Legitimacy and crime: Theorizing the role of the state in cross-national criminological theory. Theoretical Criminology, 18(1), 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480613499793
Nivette, A. E., Eisner, M., Malti, T., & Ribeaud, D. (2014). Sex Differences in Aggression Among Children of Low and High Gender Inequality Backgrounds: A Comparison of Gender Role and Sexual Selection Theories. Aggressive Behavior, 40(5), 451-464. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21530

2013

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. E., & Eisner, M. (2013). Do legitimate polities have fewer homicides? A cross-national analysis. Homicide Studies, 17(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767912452131

2012

Scholarly publications

Eisner, M., & Nivette, A. (2012). How to Reduce the Global Homicide Rate to 2 per 100,000 by 2060. In The Future of Criminology Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917938.003.0028

2011

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. E. (2011). Old theories and new approaches: Evaluating Freda Adler's theory of low crime and its implications for criminology. Theoretical Criminology, 15(1), 83-99. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480610380103
Nivette, A. E. (2011). Violence in Non-State Societies: A Review. British Journal of Criminology, 51(3), 578-598. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr008
Nivette, A. E. (2011). Cross-National Predictors of Crime: A Meta-Analysis. Homicide Studies, 15(2), 103-131. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088767911406397

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