Antoinette Verhage currently works as assistant-professor at Ghent University, department of Penal Law & Criminology. She holds a Phd from the Department of Penal Law and Criminology at Ghent University, Belgium. She is also a co-director of the Research Group Social Analysis of Security (Ghent University) and is co-promoter of several research projects. Apart from her current research activities, she also teaches in the field of the criminal justice system and qualitative research methods.