Steven De Ridder is a graduate of the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. He obtained a Master in Criminology in June 2009 with a master’s thesis entitled: Rights on the run? The reception of unaccompanied minors in Belgium. At present, he is an assistant at the Department of Criminology of the Free University of Brussels since 1 October 2009, Research Group Crime & Society, and preparing a Ph.D. on the social and penal pathways of foreign prisoners without a permit of residence in Belgium (promoters: Prof. Dr. K. Beyens and Prof. Dr. S. Snacken).