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

2025

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. E., & van der Vegt, I. (2025). Evaluating the causal mechanisms from procedural justice to police legitimacy and compliance in the United States: An in-depth mixed-methods approach. Criminology. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Geuke, G. G. M., Nivette, A., van der Vegt, I. W. J., & Jaspers, E. (2025). Gendered attrition patterns in a male-typed work setting: Comparing gender differences in attrition among Dutch police staff to the public sector. OSF. [DOI] [Portal]
Treiber, K., Hardie, B., Cliquennois, G., Di Ronco, A., Edwards, A., Hacin, R., Hamilton, C., & Nivette, A. (2025). Introduction to now wider and deeper? A special collection of editorial reflections on the progress of European criminology. European Journal of Criminology, 22(5), 673-678. [DOI] [Portal]
Nivette, A. (2025). European criminology as a comparative exercise. European Journal of Criminology, 22(5), 730-738. Article 14773708251355550. [DOI] [Portal]
de Weegh, A. O., Nivette, A., Naegel, C., & Ruiter, S. (2025). Mapping the theoretical pathways from police contact to criminal behavior: a scoping review. Psychology, Crime & Law. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Kooistra, E. B., Nivette, A. E., & Dirkzwager, A. J. E. (2025). Factors associated with encounter-specific police procedural justice perceptions among Dutch detainees. Policing and Society, 35(6), 753–772. [DOI] [Portal]

2024

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A., & van der Vegt, I. W. J. (2024). Evaluating the causal mechanisms to police legitimacy and compliance in the United States: An in-depth mixed-methods approach. (pp. 1-42). OSF. [DOI] [Portal]
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., Breetzke, G., Cano, I., Concha Eastman, I. A., ... Eisner, M. P. (2024). Correction to: The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on crime across the world (Crime Science, (2024), 13, 1, (22), 10.1186/s40163-024-00220-y). Crime Science, 13(1), Article 34. [DOI] [Portal]
On behalf of the Interpersonal Violence Consortium, van Breen, J., Kivivuori, J., Nivette, A., Kiefte-de Jong, J., & Liem, M. (2024). The future of interpersonal violence research: Steps towards interdisciplinary integration. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), Article 1303. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Portal]
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, 39(4), 3943–3962. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Portal]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]

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. [DOI]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]

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. [DOI]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]

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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
Nivette, A. (2021). Exploring the Availability and Potential of International Data for Criminological Study. International Criminology, 1(1), 70-77. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]

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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]

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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI] [Repository]

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. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI]

2016

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. E. (2016). INSTITUTIONAL INEFFECTIVENESS, ILLEGITIMACY, AND PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR VIGILANTISM IN LATIN AMERICA. Criminology, 54(1), 142-175. [DOI] [Repository]
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. [DOI]

2015

Scholarly publications

Nivette, A. (2015). International and Comparative Criminology. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition (pp. 462-469). Elsevier. [DOI]
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. [DOI]

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. [DOI]
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. [DOI]

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. [DOI]

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. [DOI]

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. [DOI]
Nivette, A. E. (2011). Violence in Non-State Societies: A Review. British Journal of Criminology, 51(3), 578-598. [DOI]
Nivette, A. E. (2011). Cross-National Predictors of Crime: A Meta-Analysis. Homicide Studies, 15(2), 103-131. [DOI] [Portal]

Other Publications