Cassatie in belang der wet. Beschikking Rb inhoudende toewijzing verzoek ex art. 36 Sv tot verklaring dat zaak geëindigd.

Opzettelijk handelen in strijd met het in art. 2.A Opiumwet gegeven verbod door invoer van ruim 30 kg ayahuasca-thee bestemd voor kerk. Beroep op recht op vrijheid van godsdienst ex art. 9 EVRM.
Was ’s Hofs oordeel dat veroordeling voor art. 2A Opiumwet (invoer harddrugs) en daarmee beperking van recht op vrijheid van godsdienst van verdachte in het onderhavige geval in een democratische samenleving noodzakelijk ter bescherming van volksgezondheid?

Deze bijdrage bespreekt recente rechtspraak van de Hoge Raad inzake het ne bis in idem-beginsel na het Alcoholslotprogramma-arrest. Hieruit blijkt dat dat een vergelijking met dit arrest niet opgaat en dat het arrest een uitzonderingspositie in blijft nemen. Ook wordt de rechtspraak beschouwd en gewaardeerd in het licht van de ratio van het ne bis in idem-beginsel en vanuit Europees perspectief. Geconcludeerd wordt dat de nadruk, zowel in nationale als in Europese context, (steeds meer) lijkt te liggen op evenredige bestraffing bij cumulatie van procedures, zodat recht wordt gedaan aan de materiële grondslag van het ne bis in idem-beginsel.

Naar aanleiding van een door socioloog Bas van Stokkom georganiseerde conferentie over de grenzen van slachtofferemancipatie schetst de auteur een korte mentaliteitsgeschiedenis van de versterkte positie van het slachtoffer in strafrecht en samenleving sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het woord slachtoffer heeft niet alleen in verschillende tijden maar ook in verschillende contexten een andere lading gekregen. De auteur behandelt de vraag waar de theoretische en praktische grenzen van de emancipatie van het slachtoffer in het strafrecht liggen.

Oplichting (meermalen gepleegd) door via ‘onzinverhalen’ tegenover kwetsbare oudere dame andere personen uit haar kennissenkring te bewegen tot afgeven van geldbedragen t.g.v. verdachte, art. 326 Sr.

Medeplegen diefstal met geweld (art. 312.2.2 Sr), meermalen gepleegd, medeplegen poging tot afpersing (art. 317 jo. 312.2.2 Sr) en medeplegen oplichting (art. 326 Sr). Kon Hof gelet op art. 63 Sr toekomen aan strafoplegging, nu verdachte kort daarvoor in België reeds was veroordeeld tot levenslange gevangenisstraf t.z.v. in dezelfde periode gepleegde samenhangende feiten?

Medeplegen voorbereidingshandelingen hennepteelt door in bedrijfspand armaturen, assimilatielampen, transformatoren en koolstoffilters voorhanden te hebben, art. 11a Opiumwet. Voorhanden hebben stoffen en voorwerpen hennepkwekerij bij ontmanteling daarvan nog ‘bestemd tot’ beroepsmatige en/of grootschalige hennepteelt?

Joint reflection of practitioners and clients appears beneficiary for the effectiveness of their working alliance in, for instance, psychotherapy. This study aims to find out whether a similar beneficiary effect is experienced by practitioners and clients in probation supervision, a mandated setting. Over thirty dyads of Dutch probation officers and probationers participated into structured joint reflection, using the working alliance monitor, specifically designed for this purpose. The majority of probation officers reported the reflection as useful. Probationers reported a more mixed experience. Probationers with an intellectual disability more often needed help to understand the working alliance monitor.

Theater performance must make hard sides of police work open to discussion

The Dutch police has noticed that in cases of honour-based violence often people are involved that might suffer from some form of trauma. Over the last years the police has dealt with cases from, for example, refugees that have fled from with war infected regions. Next to that, the road to the north of Europe was also involved with serious safety issues. Therefore the police works together with specialists in the treatment of trauma. In this article some frequently encountered misunderstandings about trauma are described, illustrated with cases of honour-based violence. The first misunderstanding is that all trauma is PTSS; the second is that PTSD explains all the mis happenings in an individual’s life; the third misunderstanding is that EMDR is the effective treatment for all sorts of trauma.

Restorative justice has developed into a recognized sanction or intervention in several countries. Literature shows that restorative justice is experienced as a procedural just approach by participants. Furthermore, a strong rejection of the behavior of the violators would reinforce reintegrative shaming in the process. Finally, stopping crime (desistance) could be achieved if the restorative justice approach would include reconstructing the self-image of the participants. This systematic literature review examines to what extent restorative justice contributes to compliant behavior by individuals and corporations. Although direct effects of restorative justice on compliance and recidivism fail to appear, procedural justice and reintegrative shame are positively affected. The results offer practical implementations and challenges for further research.

In this article, we discuss a particular form of interdisciplinary legal research. We focus on a discipline that may be fruitfully combined with doctrinal research, namely philosophy. The aim of this article is to give an account of the methods of philosophy that are most relevant and useful for doctrinal legal scholars. Our focus is therefore mostly on legal philosophy and the philosophical subdisciplines closely related to it, such as political philosophy and ethics. We characterize legal philosophy in three complementary ways: as an activity, as insights, and as theories. We then discuss three methods of legal philosophy: argumentation analysis and construction, author analysis and reflective equilibrium. In the practice of research these three methods are usually combined, as we will show with various examples.

Increasingly often, it is stated that the universal values underpinning Western liberal democracies are a product of a ‘Judeo-Christian’ tradition. This article explores the legitimacy of this claim from the perspective of liberal-democratic theory. It argues that state-endorsed claims about the historical roots of liberal-democratic values are problematic (1) if they are promoted as though they are above democratic scrutiny and (2) if they insinuate that citizens who belong to a particular (majority) culture remain the ‘cultural owners’ of the core values underpinning the state. More pragmatically, the paper suggests that the claim carries the risk of failing to facilitate all citizens becoming or remaining committed to nurturing fundamental rights and a shared society based on norms of democratic equality.