The Financial Action Task Force reported that money launderers may operate in professional money laundering networks. Whether such money laundering networks operate in the Netherlands is unclear. In this article the authors therefore explore whether professional money launderers collaborate in network structures and the business-like manner in which they offer their services. Business-like refers to their involvement in multiple cases, the amount of repeat customers, and excludes family relations. The research is based on Dutch police registrations of 236 professional money launderers. Our results suggest that professional money laundering networks are indeed active in the Netherlands and that money launderers in these networks offer their services in a business-like manner to a varying extent. An important caveat to the current findings is that the criminal cases analyzed predominantly pertain drug-related offenses, leaving the existence and professionalism of money laundering networks in other types of crime, like large-scale fraud, a question open for future research. |
Zoekresultaat: 1884 artikelen
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Externe beoordelaars in 2020 van manuscripten voor varia- en themanummers |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2020 |
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Jaarregister 2020 |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2020 |
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Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2020 |
Trefwoorden | money laundering, financial facilitators, networked criminology, organized crime |
Auteurs | Jo-Anne Kramer, Arjan Blokland en Melvin Soudijn |
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De Dark Triad persoonlijkheidskenmerken en online en offline agressie: een verkennende studie op basis van zelfrapportages van jonge adolescenten |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Dark Triad, self-reported aggression, psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism |
Auteurs | Clio Lambrechts, Lieven Pauwels en Wim Hardyns |
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The current study investigates the relationship between the Dark Triad personality traits (consisting of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism) and three different forms of aggression: online aggression, overt aggression and relational aggression. The sample consisted of 1,051 adolescents between 12 and 16 years old. Results show that psychopathy and Machiavellianism are positive predictors of the three forms of aggression, while narcissism is a positive predictor of online aggression only. |
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Crime victims and the police |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2020 |
Auteurs | Alice Bosma |
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Een netwerkbenadering van de prostitutiesector in Noord-Nederland op basis van politieregistraties |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2020 |
Trefwoorden | social network analysis, hidden population estimation, subgroup detection, key player problem, prostitution |
Auteurs | Johan Hiemstra, Gijs Huitsing en Jan Kornelis Dijkstra |
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The aim of this study was to investigate the scale and network structure of prostitution in the northern provinces of the Netherlands. This study tries to answer three research questions – using a social network analysis – about (1) the size of the prostitution network, (2) the formation of subgroups, and (3) key positions within the networks. The findings show that approximately two thirds of the researched prostitution networks is still unregistered, while there are indications that the outcome of the estimate is in line with the actual situation. Furthermore, results show that prostitutes have a tendency to form subgroups on the basis of the same nationality, which indicates that homophily plays a role in the formation of subgroups. The identification of the actors who occupy key positions in the network were based on the key player problem (KPP). A striking finding was that organizers of prostitution (such as pimps) did not have a central position in the networks. These findings provide insight into the way in which prostitution is registered, and provide points of departure for interventions to disrupt the network or, on the contrary, to strengthen it. |
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Plattelandscriminologie |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Rural criminology, Policing, Critical criminology, Cultural criminology, Environmental crime |
Auteurs | Toine Spapens |
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Criminology has traditionally focused on urban areas where crime visibly concentrates. However, since the 1990s, attention for ‘rural criminology’ has steadily increased. First, rural areas are confronted with partly different and less visible crime problems, such as environmental crimes. Second, public actors such as enforcement and other agencies are less present and ‘available’ in rural areas, and people on average trust the government less to provide support when necessary. This chronicle presents an overview of international and Dutch research in the context of rural criminology. The paper addresses cultural differences between urban and rural areas, high-volume crimes, gender-related violence, alcohol and drug abuse, environmental crime, and enforcement in rural areas. |
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De bestudering van desistance from crime tijdens het stopproces |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2020 |
Auteurs | Ido Weijers |
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Exploring narrative, convictions and autoethnography as a convict criminologist |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | convict criminology, narrative, autoethnography, reflexivity, post-colonial perspective |
Auteurs | Dr. Rod Earle |
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Convict criminology draws from personal experience of imprisonment to offer critical criminological perspectives on punishment and prisons. In this article I discuss how some of these are aligned with questions of narrative and post-colonial perspectives in criminology. I use autoethnographic vignettes to communicate the experiences of imprisonment that inform the development of convict criminology, and I explore their relationship to narrative criminology’s interest in personal stories. |
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Whose narratives?The Self as (also) an alien – for a complex concept of ‘Self’ in narrative criminology |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Self, narrative criminology |
Auteurs | Professor Alfredo Verde |
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This paper, answering to a recent critique by Ben Laws to the concept of Self developed by narrative criminology, and recognizing its importance, shows that narrative criminology has formulated a complex dynamic definition of it, in addressing both the limit-experiences and the unconscious dimension. Such enlargement can be attained by adding to narrative criminology the contributions of psychosocial criminology, that considers also the emotional dimension of crime narratives and the enjoyment connected to crime: the offender Self, in this perspective, is a multiplex, not completely definable, sometimes alien entity, which can be exposed analysing in depth criminal narratives. |
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Externe beoordelaars 2020 |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
In Memoriam |
Herinneringen aan Lodewijk Brunt(24 juni 1942 – 17 oktober 2020) |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Richard Staring |
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Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Auteurs | Dr. Olga Petintseva en Dr. Martina Althoff |
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Alsof slachtofferschap een verhaal is: de narratieve victimologie en haar grenzen |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | victimology, narrative criminology, cultural criminology, Susan Brison, Hans Vaihinger |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Antony Pemberton |
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This article adopts German philosopher Hans Vaihinger’s Philosophy of “as if” as a vehicle to sketch the main features of the emerging research domain of narrative victimology, as well as address some of its limitations. Vaihinger emphasizes the importance of useful untruths, i.e. things we know to be untrue, but nevertheless behave as if they are not, if that strengthens their use as instruments for us to find our way more easily in the world. This applies to our daily lives, but also to our societal institutions and the models and metaphors that underlie our approaches to (social) science. The paper argues that the narrative metaphor of the historical event is often more apt to enhance our understanding of victimological phenomena than that of the mechanism, which is the default metaphor of (social) science. The paper subsequently describes four areas of inquiry of narrative victimology: victimisation’s impact on (life) stories; narratives in the aftermath of victimization; narratives of victim’s experiences with justice processes and the coincidence and juxtaposition of the victims’ narrative with narratives of other significant parties. For all its merits however, the narrative metaphor is also a “useful untruth”, equipped with its own limitations, for instance the difficulty of language in describing first hand experiences of victims and the possibility that narrative structures will be imposed upon victim experiences. |
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Verhalen in interviewsKritisch meekijken met de narratieve criminologie |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | narrative criminology, storytelling, interview, thick description, police |
Auteurs | Dr. Merlijn van Hulst |
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Narrative criminology focuses on stories. It initially contrasted itself with standard approaches to interviewing. The founders of narrative criminology proposed that we understand that what the persons we investigate are telling us, as acting discursively and not as factual descriptions of events or accurate representations of their perspective. This critique I compare to previous critique on interviewing to show their overlap. Next, I critique these critiques. Finally, I propose several ways through which narratives in interviews can be enriched. |
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Legitimering van massale schadeDe narratieve sociologie van Lois Presser |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | narrative criminology, critical criminology, mass harm, narrative impacts, power paradox |
Auteurs | Dr. Bas van Stokkom |
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In this review-essay, two books by criminologist Lois Presser are discussed: Why We Harm (2013) and Inside Story: How Narratives Drive Mass Harm (2018). In these books the author develops a general theory of harmful action, in particular collective and massive forms of harmful action that are often related to state institutions and large companies. Presser shows that all kinds of stories, scripts and ideologies may justify, support, cover up or deny harmful action. In her publications, cultural sociology, critical criminology and discourse analysis are intimately intertwined. |
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Narratieve criminologie meets participatief actieonderzoekEen reflectie over epistemologische mogelijkheden en uitdagingen |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | participatory action research, critical narrative criminology, counter narratives, drug use, stigma |
Auteurs | Michelle Van Impe MA |
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Critical narrative criminologists analyse dominant and institutionalised stories that can contribute to harm but they might also become more involved in interrogating and changing such narratives. The following question would be: in what ways can this be done? Based on experiences from a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project on stigma with people who use(d) illegal drugs, this paper reflects on the epistemological opportunities and challenges of fusing narrative criminology with PAR. Although such an integration raises potential tensions – especially with regard to the role of the researcher – PAR can amplify narrative criminology by offering a framework for practicing critical, ethical and socially engaged scholarship. Vice versa, narrative criminology can deepen PAR in its analysis of discursive power structures and the relation between narratives and action. |
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Cultural criminology and narrative criminology’s shared interestsMore than just criminological verstehen |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | verstehen, cultural criminology, media looping, narrative criminology, storytelling |
Auteurs | Dr. Avi Brisman |
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This article explores the intersection of two criminological perspectives—cultural criminology and narrative criminology. Taking inspiration from Mills and Fleetwood’s article, ‘Prepping and verstehen: A narrative criminological perspective’, where the authors contend that stories complement the pursuit of criminological verstehen, this article draws attention to other ways in which cultural criminology and narrative criminology are imbricated, taking notice of commonalities in cultural criminology’s analysis of media looping and narrative criminology’s identification of cycles of storytelling practice and lived experiences. A consideration of Donald Trump’s attempts to control narrative is used to develop an argument regarding cultural criminology’s and narrative criminology’s joint questioning of linear sequencing and mutual recognition of circulating fluidity |
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‘Eigenlijk doen we voortdurend aan intervisie met elkaar’Een dubbelinterview over landsgrensoverschrijdende zaken |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Auteurs | Mieke Wouters |
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Mediation in strafzaken: de werkstijl is de methodeReflecties op de praktijk |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | strafzaken, mediation, mediatorprofiel, mediationproces, psychologische veiligheid |
Auteurs | Makiri Mual |
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Since the beginning of 2020 mediation in penal cases (mediation in strafzaken) has officially become the preferred intervention for victim-offender mediation in the criminal procedure in the Netherlands. Although mediation in general has a sound theoretical framework, the methodological elaboration appears pluriform and somewhat limited. In practice mediators in penal cases operate conform their own personal and professional standards and preferences, apparently without tailor made methodology. This article describes the current methodological directions such as transformative or narrative mediation and seeks for useful references. As a part of restorative practice, mediation in penal cases seems to remain secluded from insights and methodology developed in the domain of restorative justice practices. Educational institutes providing trainings for mediators barely refer to this theoretical framework. Besides a methodological reconnaissance this article offers a fundamental comparison of mediation styles and interventions, but is above all an incentive to further methodological research and development. |