Olga Petintseva

Professor Olga Petintseva teaches 'Welfare & Criminology' and 'Forensic Social Work'. Alongside her teaching and research at the VUB, she is affiliated to the National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology.

Olga's expertise is located at the intersection of criminology, migration studies, legal anthropology, and socio-linguistics. Her research zeroes in on exclusionary and discriminatory practices in institutional contexts (such as criminal and juvenile courts, migration administration, and higher education). 
She is currently conducting empirical work on the ways in which victims of human smuggling interact with frontline services.

Olga is involved in various scholarly networks concerned with critical, cultural, and narrative criminology. She has also published widely on qualitative research methods, such as discourse analysis, narrative analysis, expert interviews, participatory research.

Research Line

Penality and Society

Youth Justice Studies 

Current Research Projects

The administrative power of (cr)immigration officers

Courses (2024-2025)

Forensisch welzijnswerk

Welzijn en Criminologie