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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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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‘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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‘Partners in crime’? De rol van de antropologie in de criminologie |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 2-3 2020 |
Trefwoorden | criminal anthropology, Criminology, anthropology |
Auteurs | Dr. Brenda Oude Breuil |
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Criminology, as an inherently interdisciplinary field, has built on anthropology (and other social sciences) in its development. This contribution addresses the question which insights in criminology have most been inspired by anthropology. First, it looks into the ‘criminal anthropology’ of Lombroso; then it embarks on an appreciation of the ethnographic research design within criminology (as first adopted by the Chicago School); and, finally, it assesses the link between anthropology, and cultural and global criminology. I conclude that anthropology has been valuable to our discipline on four levels: methodologically (in the importance of the ethnographic research design), theoretically (in its role in the development of symbolic interactionism and structuralism, for example), geographically (in the global scope of anthropological research), and analytically, in its experience with ‘doing ethnography’ in economically, politically and culturally embedded ways. |
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In detentie: bemiddelen in coronatijd |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Auteurs | Mieke Wouters |
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Buurtbemiddeling bewijst zich ook in crisistijden |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Auteurs | Bente London |
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Gedetineerd via de achterdeur: juridisch en criminologisch onderzoek naar omzetting en herroeping van vrijheidsbeperkende sancties |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | omzetting taakstraf, Herroeping voorwaardelijke sanctie, reclasseringstoezicht, Europese minimumregels community sanctions and measures, Europese reclasseringsregels |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Miranda Boone |
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This contribution provides an overview of the legal and criminological research into the decision following the determination of a supervisor that the conditions of a freedom-restricting sanction are not met. It is an important decision, on the one hand because it can result in a more severe sanction than was initially imposed, on the other hand because a decision that is perceived as unfair can influence the extent to which suspects and convicts are willing to comply with conditions, and recidivism. Yet little research has been conducted into this decision. The legal safeguards with which it is accompanied are lagging behind those of the original sentencing decision. Undeserved according to penitentiary experts. The scarce empirical research shows that decision-making involves many different layers and that the actors involved have different goals, ranging from deterrence and emphasizing the credibility of the system to the successful completion of the sanction. Even in countries where regulations have been tightened considerably, the discretionary power of direct supervisors, such as employees of the working project or therapists, is still large. This raises the question to what extent the final decision maker (usually a judge) still has sufficient room to make an independent decision. |
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Herstelgerichte taakstraffenEen verkeerscasus uit de reclasseringspraktijk |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Auteurs | Joke Niekamp |
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‘Dat hij mij niets verwijt. Dat was heel belangrijk voor me.’Herstelbemiddeling na een verkeersongeval |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Auteurs | Mieke Wouters |
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Mediation in verkeersstrafzaken |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Auteurs | Marlène Panis |
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Op weg naar herstel: herstelrecht voor slachtoffers van verkeersmisdrijven |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Auteurs | Ingrid Marit |
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Jongeren, leeftijdsgenoten en criminaliteit |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Peer relations, Delinquency, Social influence, Social networks, Peer status |
Auteurs | Dr. Jan Kornelis Dijkstra en Prof. dr. René Veenstra |
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This article relates criminological research on youth delinquency to the social development of adolescents. Starting point is a goal-framing approach which assumes that young people aim for the achievement of two goals: status (‘getting ahead’) and belonging (‘getting along’). Peers form an important context for achieving these goals. Therefore, the role of delinquency in peer networks is examined: on the one hand, the extent to which delinquency contributes to peer status, and on the other hand, how delinquency contributes to the formation of network relationships and, vice versa, how network relationships influence adolescents’ delinquency. Finally, several directions for further research are discussed. |
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Criminalisering van migratie en grensmobiliteit als een legitieme zorg voor de publieke criminologie |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 4 2019 |
Trefwoorden | crimmigration, border mobility, criminalization, migration, public criminology |
Auteurs | Maartje van der Woude |
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What role do Dutch criminologists play in the – especially since the onset of the so-called migration crisis – heated national and international debates on the criminalization of migration and border mobility? This will be the central question in this publication. Based on an inventory of national and international peer-reviewed publications written by Dutch criminologists, the article will reflect upon Dutch criminologists’ public role. In addition, based on the observed ‘silences’ in the scholarly debates on the criminalization of migration and border mobility, three avenues for further criminological research will be identified. |
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De toegevoegde waarde van criminologie in terrorismeonderzoek |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 1 2019 |
Auteurs | Marieke Liem en Edwin Bakker |
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Terrorism could be regarded as an extreme type of (violent) criminal behaviour. Against this background, there is much to gain if criminological attention would be extended to terrorism. In this overview, the authors describe how and to what extent criminological theories may provide a significant contribution to underlying causes of terrorism. Previous criminological contributions to the field of terrorism have primarily taken a theory-extended approach, including routine activity theory, rational choice theory and strain theory. However, so far such studies lacked empirical data. Further, to this day, not much is known about the empirical applicability of other criminological theories, including desistance theories, which warrant particular attention. In order for criminology literature to contribute effectively to our understanding of terrorism and to pursue better counter-terrorism policies, empirical evidence should first be obtained. In this way, terrorism researchers, in close collaboration with criminologists, can deepen our theoretical and empirical understanding of this relatively underexplored field. |
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‘Ik ben nu pas boos. En dat bevalt me wel.’ |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht, Aflevering 3 2018 |
Auteurs | Mieke Wouters |
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