This study describes how penal protection orders contribute to victim perceptions of safety, drawing upon data collected via a victim survey (n=101). Perceived victim safety is explored based on the factors of personal vulnerability, procedural justice, and experiences with compliance and enforcement. Results show that more than half of the victims in this study does not feel safer because of the protection order. The effects of the orders are even weaker for feelings of relaxation and feelings of anger about the situation. An increase in perceptions of control over the situation appears to be the most important predictor of an increase in feelings of safety and a decrease in feelings of anger, but is unrelated to an increase in feelings of relaxation. The effect of procedural justice differs per outcome measure. It is associated positively with increased feelings of safety, but negatively with decreased feelings of anger because of the protection order. The positive association with feelings of safety is partly indirect via personal vulnerability. Findings result in various suggestions for future research. |
Zoekresultaat: 50 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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Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | protection order, victim, safety perception, vulnerability, procedural justice |
Auteurs | Irma Cleven MSc PhD, Tamar Fischer MSc en Prof. mr. Sanne Struijk |
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‘Met mij gaat het goed, met ons gaat het slecht’: ook als het om de criminaliteit gaat |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 2 2018 |
Auteurs | Marnix Eysink Smeets |
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De digitale schandpaal: opsporingsberichtgeving in een gedigitaliseerde samenleving |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, Aflevering 1-2 2018 |
Trefwoorden | DIY-policing, online policing, wanted notices, right to privacy, procedural defect |
Auteurs | Gabry Vanderveen en Mojan Samadi |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In the context of criminal investigations police and prosecution can appeal to the public for information to further their case. This decision cannot be taken lightly and requires a balancing exercise between the rights of the suspect (and other people involved), specifically the right to privacy, the interest of criminal investigations, such as the identification of the suspect or witnesses, and public pressure to fight crime. |
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Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, Aflevering 1-2 2018 |
Auteurs | Wouter Stol, Ben Kokkeler, Emile Kolthoff e.a. |
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Verstoorde veiligheidsbelevingIn gesprek met buurtbewoners over de ‘onveiligheid’ in hun buurt naar aanleiding van gestegen ‘gevoelens van onveiligheid’ |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, Aflevering 4 2017 |
Trefwoorden | fear of crime, qualitative analysis, evidence based policy |
Auteurs | Remco Spithoven |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The ‘fear of crime’ is a buzzword among citizens, media, politicians and professionals by now. But the phenomenon seems to be as intangible as it is important. The struggle of professionals with this concept is the result of a too wide and self-evident problem definition. This article contains an alternative approach. The focus is on disturbed fear of crime: a negatively changed and problematically experienced fear of crime on the level of the neighborhood. |
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Veilig uitgaan: tegenstrijdige gevoelens over inzet politie en andere maatregelen |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, Aflevering 4 2017 |
Trefwoorden | tegenstrijdigheden, assemblage, angst voor criminaliteit, uitgaansgebieden, veiligheidsbeleving |
Auteurs | Jelle Brands en Irina van Aalst |
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Urban nightlife areas are widely renowned for their emotionally charged nature, affording greater opportunities for transgressions of social norms compared to daytime contexts. Yet, the ways nightlife consumers experience safety in the public spaces of nightlife areas has received limited attention in the academic literatures. This article approaches experienced safety in the public spaces of nightlife areas as emerging from encounters between human and non-human (material, social, cultural) elements grounded in time and space. Such elements include the characteristics of the built environment, the design of public space, police presence, lighting and also first and secondhand experiences and popular media discourses more generally. We hypothesized that encounters between such elements necessarily renders some ambiguity in experienced safety, in the sense that the effect of a particular element on experienced safety is always coproduced in the unfolding encounter. By drawing on a series of interviews with Dutch students in Utrecht, various types of ambiguity are shown to exist depending on both the particularities of the situation at hand and based on differences between individual circumstance and life course. Ambiguity is also shown to exist in the sense that mentioned elements may both comfort and alarm participants at the same time. Our findings infer that we should implement ‘safer nightlife’ initiatives that are tailored to particular contexts, situations and publics. The results also suggest that current interventions seeking to stimulate safety in urban nightlife settings might not be as successful in reducing/enhancing (un)safety as (popular) policy and media discourses have suggested. |
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Jaarregister 2017 |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2017 |
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Experimenten in de criminologie |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 1-2 2017 |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Christianne de Poot, Dr. Jan-Willem van Prooijen en Prof. dr. Jan de Keijser |
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Gruwelijke beelden van plaatsen delict: kijkstrategieën, opgewekte emoties en oordeelsvorming |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 1-2 2017 |
Trefwoorden | eyetracking, crime scene photography, disgust sensitivity, perceptions of seriousness, penal decision-making |
Auteurs | Dr. Lotte van Dillen en Dr. Gabry Vanderveen |
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Eyetracking enabled the authors to study eye movements of 23 participants who looked at crime scene photographs. The authors measured the emotions elicited by the photographs, as well as perceptions of seriousness and the sentence that participants would give the perpetrator of the crime. Also, individual differences in disgust sensitivity were taken into account. Results show a positive relationship between disgust sensitivity and both the proportion of fixations as well as the number of fixations on gruesome aspects of the photos (the blood and the wound), emotion ratings of the photographs, perceptions of seriousness, and the sentence given. Implications, limitations, and future directions of the research are discussed. |
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De twitterende wijkagent en het veiligheidsgevoel van de burger |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, Aflevering 4 2016 |
Trefwoorden | Twitter, police, safety perceptions, communication, social media |
Auteurs | Imke Smulders, Wilbert Spooren en Emile Kolthoff |
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This article reports on a conceptual model that provides insight into the relationship between Twitter use by community policing officers and citizens’ safety perceptions. The model has been tested using data from a relatively large-scale survey study and these results are supporting the model. Furthermore, a small impact of Twitter use has been found on feelings of safety and judgments about the police. To confirm these findings, further research on a larger scale is necessary. To find out more about the exact positive and negative effects of Twitter use by community policing officers, a more experimental design is required. |
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Afgeschermd wonen in Nederland: een studie naar waarom mensen hiervoor kiezen en hoe zij omgaan met interne regelgeving |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, Aflevering 0304 2015 |
Trefwoorden | Gated communities, afgeschermde woondomeinen, Vondelparc, Haverleij |
Auteurs | Marc Schuilenburg en Ronald Van Steden |
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Protected living in some sort of gated community is popular. However Dutch protected living differs from, for instance, the living in American gated communities, the development tends to social discussions whether it is undesirable or not. Safety seems in the Netherlands not the first reason for protected living. Here, domestic and aesthetic reasons are much more important. |
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Do these words give rise to doubts? Unraveling the effects of delivering a Victim Impact Statement |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 3 2015 |
Auteurs | Mr. dr. Marijke Malsch |
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Trends in perceptie van criminaliteit |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 2 2015 |
Trefwoorden | fear of crime, risk perception |
Auteurs | Marnix Eysink Smeets en Dr. Ben Vollaard |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Some overestimation of crime risk is likely, but that does not mean that risk perceptions are not adjusted in line with changes in actual crime risk. Based on time series data, we show that crime risk perceptions are strongly related to rates of victimization. The conventional wisdom that the drop in crime since the 1990s did not result in an adjustment in risk perceptions can be easily refuted. The much discussed crime drop goes together with a much less discussed fear drop. |
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Horror in mainstream en cult cinema: is het genre extremer geworden? |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2015 |
Trefwoorden | horror, (extreme) violence in movies, visual data |
Auteurs | Veerle Pashley |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Ever since the creation of silent movies, directors aim to shock the audience with explicit scenes of violence. Yet, little attention has been given to the evolution of horror movies. In order to create ‘monsters’, ‘dark locations’ and ‘explicit scenes of violence’ directors have to experiment with storylines and new techniques, if they want to shock the audience. The aim of this paper is to examine whether or not horror has become more violent (more extreme) throughout film history. Hence, we will discuss the historic evolution of horror movies in mainstream cinema (films that reached a large audience) and cult cinema (films which have a select, mostly fan based, audience). |
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De samenhang tussen fysieke en sociale veiligheid in theorie en praktijk |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, Aflevering 3 2014 |
Trefwoorden | safety, security, disciplinary boundaries, multidisciplinary collaboration, networked coordination |
Auteurs | Hanneke Duijnhoven, Kim van Buul-Besseling en Nathalie Vink |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This article discusses the complex relations between the organizational fields of safety (i.e. disaster and crisis response) and security (i.e. crime prevention and public order), and the ways in which disciplinary and organizational boundaries make it difficult to come to a better integration or coordination in the safety and security domain. Based on results of a research project on cooperation and information-sharing between organizations in the fields of safety and security, the authors argue that it is not realistic to refer to safety and security as relatively independent fields. Instead, it would be more useful to approach it as a connected domain, encompassing both safety and security disciplines. Yet, the separation of the two fields is strongly embedded in the culture and responsibilities of organizations in these fields, which reinforces the disciplinary boundaries in the domain. Nevertheless, in the last few years it seems that there is an increasing recognition of the need for multidisciplinary collaboration in the safety and security domain. This paper explores possible directions for creating more coherence and integration in the safety and security domain. The authors believe that much progress can be made if key stakeholders in the safety and security domain are able to adopt a broader, multidisciplinary perspective when approaching safety and security events. |
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Een terughoudende praktijkOver de praktische vraagtekens bij het bestrijden van onveiligheidsgevoelens |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Veiligheid, Aflevering 3 2014 |
Trefwoorden | reducing fear of crime, reflective practitioners |
Auteurs | Remco Spithoven |
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Despite the international scientific inconclusiveness about the nature of the fear of crime, the strategic layer of the Dutch government aims to reduce the fear of crime in general by 2017. But their policy-goals were not accompanied with a plan how to realize them. Meanwhile, local practitioners claim to be in search of practical tools and substantive support how to fight back the public’s fear of crime. This study was aimed to feed the discussion with a constructive and realistic input from both the practitioners and the scientific view. The research question was: ‘What do local practitioners do against the public’s fear of crime and how can these activities be improved?’ 36 local practitioners from Dutch local municipalities, the police force and the public prosecutor were interviewed. Schön’s idea of the ‘reflective practitioner’ (1983) was the underlying argument to make practical knowledge about reducing the fear of crime explicit. The respondents from both institutional layers of local ‘policy advise’ and ‘policy implementation’ were quite reluctant about fighting back the public’s fear of crime. They aim to reduce the fear of crime in a doubtful and indirect way. Because many sources of the public’s fear of crime were unknown to them or were not in the reach of their professional activities. In this way, the interviewed local practitioners approach strongly aligned with the advice of international scientists to be reluctant and realistic about fighting back the public’s fear of crime. We advised an approach of ‘local fear of and worry about crime’ in dialog between international science and the interviewed local Dutch practitioners. The results of it will probably not contribute to quantitative policy goals at the national level, but rather to custom fit, qualitative improvements on the local level. This will probably be the most effective way to fight back the few tractable elements that make up the fear of crime. |
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Criminaliteit en kunstBetekenisgeving aan verbeeldingen |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2014 |
Trefwoorden | art, exhibition, visual criminology, construction of meaning |
Auteurs | dr. Gabry Vanderveen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The recent exhibition The Crime Was Almost Perfect in the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, curated by Cristina Ricupero, focused on the dynamic relation between art (aesthetics) and crime (ethics). The review discusses the representations of crime in (some of) the exhibited art works and analyzes the ways in which the artists play with their (conflicting) meanings, ambivalences and ambiguities. |
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De kunst van het verbeeldenOver de relatie tussen beeldende kunst en criminologie |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2014 |
Trefwoorden | visual criminology, fine arts, representation |
Auteurs | prof. dr. Willem de Haan en prof. dr. René van Swaaningen |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Cultural criminology has shown an interest in the visual representation of perpetrators, victims and scenes of crime and punishment in the media. Relatively little attention has been paid to the visual representation of these subjects in the fine arts, however. This lacuna has been the inspiration for this special issue about the art of representation and the relationship between fine arts and criminology. Questions that are addressed include: What is the importance and meaning of representational art for the criminologist? It is conceivable that a criminological researcher would reformulate his or her research problem due to insights that have been articulated by artists? And, by the same token, is it possible that an artist would revise his or her representation because of scientific research? Or, are the doings of both independent of one another? Ultimately, this special issue is concerned with how representations of perpetrators, victims and scenes of crime and punishment come into being, which meaning these images have in different social and cultural contexts and what we, as criminologists, can contribute to them. |
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Het probleem van meetinvariantie bij het vergelijken van subgroepen op basis van somscoresVermijdingsgedrag als casestudy |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 1 2014 |
Trefwoorden | measurement invariance, differential item functioning, fear of crime, avoidance behavior |
Auteurs | Arne De Boeck MSc, Prof. dr. Wim Hardyns en Prof. dr. Lieven Pauwels |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Using summated scale scores to make group comparisons is only meaningful if one can assume that the scale measures attribute in the same way in each of the groups involved in the comparison. This assumption is called measurement invariance. This contribution discusses the use of modern statistical measurement models to test this assumption and to verify the consequences of a possible violation for the comparison of group means. In the empirical part of the contribution the authors illustrate their account by examining whether a scale assessing avoidance behavior – commonly used in fear of crime research – is invariant across gender and age groups. |