The Netherlands occupies a paradoxical position in the mind of many criminologists. On the
one hand, the country symbolises acumen for creative approaches to social and criminal …

Criminal justice policy in the Netherlands has traditionally been characterised by a great
deal of stability but recent crises have fuelled a public mood of discontent and disarray. The …

Culture has been said to be that which keeps violence down (Adler-Karlsson, 1981: 18). In
this sense, criminology could be regarded as culture. From this starting-point I will briefly …

The theoretical framework for this research comes from Garland's account of the 'culture of
control'. Garland examines the whole spectrum of social, economic, political and cultural …

The Netherlands is particularly appropriate as the subject of the first Crime and Justice
volume to focus on a single European country or region. Its criminal justice policies have …

This article relates the development of criminology to developments in crime and justice and
to cultural and political changes in the Netherlands. Despite a long tradition, criminology's …

In his 1989 presidential address to the American Society of Criminology, William Chambliss
captured the criminological imagination with a new concept: state-organised crime, or state …

Since the 1970s, crime policy has become politicized. Conservative parties have launched
the law and order theme and exploited crime in political campaigns. Social Democratic and …

The international trend toward increased use of punishment has been visible in Denmark
since the early 1990s and has accelerated in the first years of the new millennium. As in …

A relatively high level of social stability and a certain degree of tolerance are characteristic of
Dutch society to the present day. In spite of the influx of immigrants and the presence of …