In dit artikel wordt het voorstel van de minister van VWS besproken om in het kader van de opsporing van ernstige strafbare feiten zonder toestemming lichaamsmateriaal te gebruiken dat bij een geneeskundige behandeling is verkregen. Hiermede wordt het verschoningsrecht buiten toepassing verklaard. Daartegen bestaan ernstige bezwaren, onder andere omdat de vrije toegang tot de zorg daarmede in het geding komt.

In 2015, South-Korea and Japan came to a ‘final’ agreement concerning the ‘comfort women’ issue. This contribution reveals that this deal signals the next stage in a process of denial through which Japanese authorities have structurally denied the women’s’ victimhood. Taking a discourse analytical approach, the contribution investigates this historical process of denial and its implications. The analysis shows that denial takes several forms and performs different functions throughout the process. It demonstrates that denial is an interactional phenomenon, has different psychologies underlying it, and that it operates on different levels. Denial ultimately contributes to a state of continued victimization.

In this article the question is addressed how language played a pivotal role in the process of concealing and denying the use of doping in professional cycling in the period 1990-2012. The author concludes that the popular argument that the ‘Walls of Silence’ within professional cycling were based upon a system of ‘omertà’, is not convincing. Rather than that they were forced to keep their mouths shut, the people involved in the doping industry granted themselves a right to silence. The analysis also shows that the common vocabulary within cycling facilitated the processes of denial, as the concepts used – like preparation, recuperation, medical supervision and so on – are vague and ambiguous.

The Netherlands changed from a culturally homogenous society into a religiously plural society. This had an impact across public and denominational schools. The pluralisation of the pupil population raised the issue of the so-called pillarized educational system. In this contribution I explore this theme in the context of the freedom of education laid down in article 23 of the Dutch Constitution, and the right of every child to get acquainted with the diversity of its society’s traditions, and to position itself in the plural Dutch society. Moving beyond the pillarized system, all education can then become truly special, preparing children for normative citizenship.

What causes occupational stress in the Dutch judicial organization? And what can be done to moderate the effects? This article addresses these questions from an organizational perspective. The well-known job demand/job control-model (Karasek) and sociotechnical principles for organizational design are used as a theoretical framework. Increasing job demands (workload, complexity) combined with reduced opportunities for individual judicial professionals to control their work are considered root causes for organizational stress. In addition to these factors, the specific characteristics of the judicial organizational culture should also be acknowledged. This culture is based on a strong emphasis on individual professional performance and responsibility, making it a complex task to mitigate occupational stress from an organizational perspective. A short overview of recent developments to manage occupational stress in the Dutch judicial organization concludes the article.

Deze Kroniek rechtspraak zorgverzekeringsrecht bevat een selectie van gepubliceerde rechtspraak die betrekking heeft op de Zorgverzekeringwet (Zvw), de Algemene Wet Bijzondere Ziektekosten (AWBZ) en – voor het eerst – de Wet langdurige zorg (Wlz). Er zijn uitspraken geselecteerd uit de periode 1 januari 2015 tot 1 april 2017.

This study investigates the effect of providing information about decision making on aggression of clients of the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency (UWV). The expectation is that providing adequate information leads to a decrease in aggression, because it influences feelings of informational justice and frustration. UWV-clients (N=1.415) participated in an experimental scenario study (adequate vs. limited information providing). Next to aggression, psychological, UWV and social demographic characteristics were measured. Compared to limited information, receiving adequate information results in lower aggression. Clients with more negative affect show more aggression, but receiving adequate information especially reduces aggression in these clients.

Het EU-wetgevend kader inzake persoonsgegevensbescherming werd grondig herzien in het licht van nieuwe ontwikkelingen. Voor de bescherming van persoonsgegevens die worden verwerkt met het oog op strafrechtelijke onderzoeken en vervolgingen, werd een richtlijn afgekondigd in het voorjaar van 2016. De Nederlandse implementatiewetgeving is nog niet bekend. Deze bijdrage onderzoekt de wijzigingen in het EU-wetgevend kader, de achtergrond en de betekenis ervan. Daarbij worden het onderscheid en de overeenkomsten tussen gegevensbescherming in handelszaken en in strafzaken benadrukt. Bovendien worden de recente aanpassingen aan de gegevensuitwisseling in strafzaken tussen de EU en de VS besproken.

• Verordening (EU) 2016/679 van het Europees Parlement en de Raad van 27 april 2016 betreffende de bescherming van natuurlijke personen in verband met de verwerking van persoonsgegevens en betreffende het vrije verkeer van die gegevens en tot intrekking van Richtlijn 95/46/EG, PbEU 2016, L 119

• Richtlijn (EU) 2016/680 van het Europees Parlement en de Raad van 27 april 2016 betreffende de bescherming van natuurlijke personen in verband met de verwerking van persoonsgegevens door bevoegde autoriteiten met het oog op de voorkoming, het onderzoek, de opsporing en de vervolging van strafbare feiten of de tenuitvoerlegging van straffen, en betreffende het vrije verkeer van die gegevens en tot intrekking van Kaderbesluit 2008/977/JBZ van de Raad, PbEU 2016, L 119

Registered youth crime figures in the Netherlands show a spectacular downward trend from 2007 (minus 60%). In this article the authors show that this trend can be observed in a lot of other countries. They argue that a number of international developments has created a climate favorable for juvenile crime reduction: more (situational) crime prevention, less use of alcohol, more commitment to schooling, more satisfaction with living conditions, and changing activity patterns during leisure time. For the Netherlands this coincides with a diminished willingness of the Dutch police to follow up on suspicions that a youngster has committed a minor offense. The authors discuss the worldwide dissemination of smartphones and online games that started in 2006/2007, as well as the subsequent changes in the use of free time, which might have contributed to juvenile crime reduction.

This article addresses disaster recovery preparedness characteristics prescribed by literature and guidelines. An exploratory study was conducted in 25 Dutch safety regions to describe the status of disaster recovery preparedness with an emphasis on psychosocial support aspects. The study pointed at substantial cross-regional variation. Particular areas of improvement were identified in relation to involving citizens and partner organizations in safety regions’ recovery planning efforts, and the extent to which preparedness activities are guided by regional risk profiles. Optimization of preparedness takes place in an everyday context where relatively little priority is assigned to disaster recovery. Also, as major crises are fairly scarce there is little room for learning or routinization. Deliberate investments to enhance disaster recovery preparedness are needed, they would however benefit from more research into the association between relevant conditions, the disaster recovery preparedness level and the quality of service delivery when an event actually takes place.

Het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens (EHRM of Hof) heeft in de periode september 2015 tot en met 31 december 2016 een groot aantal uitspraken gedaan die voor gezondheidsjuristen van belang zijn. In het bijzonder zijn de uitspraken over de samenwerking tussen artsen en ziekenhuizen van belang, alsmede diverse uitspraken over onvrijwillige opnames, het ontnemen van de handelingsbekwaamheid van patiënten en het in het openbaar uiten van kritiek door en op artsen. Deze en andere zaken, die ook voor Nederland relevant zijn, worden in deze kroniek besproken.

De wetgever heeft ervoor gekozen om de zorg in te richten als een markt en zij is een aanzienlijk (complex) aandeel van onze economie geworden. De zorgmarkten zijn sterk gereguleerd door de overheid. Niettemin opereren zorginstellingen op de zorgmarkt steeds meer als gewone ondernemingen en zijn recht en financiering van de zorg een deel van het ondernemingsrecht. Dit artikel geeft een overzicht van deze verhoudingen.

De introductie van marktwerking in de gezondheidszorg heeft tot gevolg dat zorginstellingen in toenemende mate blootgesteld worden aan het risico van een faillissement. De publieke belangen in de zorg maken dat het faillissement van een zorginstelling een aantal eigenaardigheden kent. De auteurs verkennen in dit artikel een aantal bijzonderheden door de rollen van de overheid, de zorgverzekeraar en de curator onder de loep te nemen.

Superdiverse neighborhoods are understood as challenges; as potential ghetto’s in need for a better social mix. In this paper, ethnographic linguistic landscape analysis (ELLA) is used to study the effects of the public-private city renewal policies. ELLA not only enables a distributional image of ‘het Rabot’, a small neighborhood in the pheriphery of Ghent in Belgium, but also to sketch a stratigraphy. The ideology of social mix, in combination with the inter-urban competition for tourists and middle class inhabitants results in the hipsterification of the neighborhood. The net effect, is a disruptive influx of a creative class.

In this article we report on an ethnographic research project conducted in 2014-2015 at a school for ‘Assistant in Care and Wellbeing’, a school for secondary vocational training that is part of a large regional education center in the metropolitan area of the Randstad. The main incentive for our research was that some researchers assumed that in this ‘super-diverse’ environment, where students with an immigrant background were a vast majority, many tensions and conflicts were caused by ethnic and religious differences between students. However, after about 100 hours of observations in the classes of fourteen teachers, 36 interviews with teachers and other staff, and focus group discussions with teachers and students, we found that for most students diversity wasn’t a big issue at all. Rather than ethnic or religious differences many irritations and conflicts were triggered by the constantly changing organisational setting and institutional context of the school. In this article, we will corroborate this finding with a detailed analysis of some cases of classroom interaction, and draw conclusions about the usefulness and limits of superdiversity as a heuristic tool.

Radicalization in Molenbeek; Belgian dual policy obstructs integrated approach Belgisch tweesporenbeleid verhindert integrale aanpak