Dr D.P. Schaap (Dorian)

Dorian Schaap conducts research on policy, functioning, organization and legitimacy of actors in the domain of public safety. His Ph.D. dissertation, 'The police, the public, and the pursuit of trust', was an international comparative study of citizens' trust in the police and police trust-building strategies. Other research interests include rationalization and modernization, apparent in the tension between continuity and change in public safety actors. As such, he studied historical developments in the Dutch police system and conducted an international study on higher education for the police. More generally, he is interested in the relationship between citizens and the state, as well as in international comparative and mixed methods research.