China from a penal and criminological perspective
Recently a small delegation from our faculty visited several universities in Shanghai and Shangdong Law Shool in Qingdao. This blog describes the perception of one of the delegates.
Tag: Criminology
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Travel bans for known child sex offenders: tackling the “paedophile” threat?
Australia recently adopted a law to revoke the passports of known child sex offenders. While it is praiseworthy that governments are trying to prevent child sex tourism by their citizens, one might ask: will this measure be effective enough to combat it? -
Constrained agency and crime
The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) argues that the government should give more consideration to the impact of life events on life skills. This is also crucial for supporting people to exit a life of crime. -
What’s in a name? Are labour exploitation and human trafficking one and the same?
When people think about human trafficking, images of young women who are forced to work in prostitution tend to come to mind. But what about labour exploitation, is that also a form of human trafficking? -
Breaking Barriers: Cops, Community, and Basketball
In the United States a great sense of public trust in police has been lost due to incidents of police misconduct. But can basketball games between cops and youth be a step in the right direction towards restoring community confidence? -
Punishing juvenile delinquents
In 2010 the Glen Mills treatment programme at a residential facility for juvenile delinquents in Wezep was cancelled. I contend that the Glen Mills method might work excellently in the Netherlands, but only if it is applied fully and without reservations. -
Street Crime, Social Control, and Skateboarding?
The prevention of juvenile delinquency is an essential part of crime control and community safety. But with budgetary constraints and limited resources, skateboarding is often overlooked in crime prevention and desistance efforts. -
Learning lessons from the serial rapist investigations
Now that police in Utrecht have arrested the alleged serial rapist who plagued the area for a long time, new questions arise. -
A reappraisal of the societal value of research?
The productivity of academic research groups will no longer be taken as a separate indicator of success in research assessments; societal relevance and integrity have become more important. How will this impact law and criminology? -
Master plan or Monstrous plan?
The Netherlands is internationally known for its reasonably humane prison conditions. It remains to be seen, to what extent this image still holds after the implementation of the recently presented “Masterplan Department of Correctional Institutions". -
Media attention for Holleeder makes crime pay
People generally like to get attention. So, if breaking rules pays off with attention, even negative attention, there is an incentive to show this type of behaviour. That is why the media should not reward crime with fame. -
A vintage approach to tackling crime
The British conservative government wants to abolish the repressive ASBOs in favour of alternative 'community-based' social control policies. Can we expect the, in September, newly-elected Dutch politicians to follow this retro look on crime?