Correctional policies for Islamist violent extremist offenders are often based on the premise that prisons can be hotbeds of radicalization. The perception that inmates are susceptible to violent extremist belief systems has given rise to a fervent international public, political, and scholarly debate and has led to the introduction of drastic, often expensive policies to … Continued
– Structured Decision Support for Case Management Plans- by Jacqueline Bosker In 2010, the Dutch Probation Service introduced a digital decision support system for case management plans, a so called fourth generation risk/needs assessment instrument. Does this system help probation officers in determining the appropriate interventions that should prevent recidivism for each individual client? And … Continued
by Femke Hofstee – van der Meulen ISBN: 978-94-6295-410-6 In recent decades prison populations have become less homogeneous. Statistic reveal that foreign national prisoners (FNPs) are detained practically everywhere in the world and very often in relatively large numbers This is particularly true for countries in the European Union (EU), where on average nearly one in … Continued
Edited by Gwen Robinson and Fergus McNeill In Community Punishment: European perspectives, the authors place punishment in the community under the spotlight by exploring the origins, evolution and adaptations of supervision in 11 European jurisdictions. For most people, punishment in the criminal justice system is synonymous with imprisonment. Yet, both in Europe and in the … Continued
– The significance of social relations – By Beth Weaver In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal careers: onset, persistence and desistance. While there is consensus across the body of desistance research that social … Continued
Edited by Mike Nellis (University of Strathclyde, UK), Kristel Beyens (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) and Dan Kaminski (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) Since the 1980’s. electronic monitoring has been succesfully introduced in a number of countries worldwide. Much of the literature on electronic monitoring has been produced by officials and reasearchers directly involved in the … Continued
In some jurisdictions, early release is automatic at a certain point in time; in others, it is discretionarily decided by a court or an executive authority; others still have a mixed system and, increasingly, others opt for mandatory post-release supervision with the hope of better controlling dangerous offenders. In some cases, due process applies and … Continued