Brenda Oude Breuil is a lecturer in criminology at the Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She combines her anthropological and criminological expertise with a passion for critical, cultural criminology approaches to place crime and (supposedly) deviant behaviour in their cultural context. Her research interests are in prostitution migration and sex trafficking, the exploitation of migration, and the inspirations and eventual criminogenic tendencies of globalisation. As a researcher she belongs to RENFORCE (Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe).