This contribution summarizes findings from the Prison Project on the longitudinal course of mental health problems during imprisonment. The findings illustrate that prisoners experience high levels of mental health problems. Shortly after their arrival in detention, a quarter of them experienced a high level of mental health problems, which is five times as high as men in the general population. Prisoners’ mental health problems decreased during imprisonment. Both characteristics of the correctional environment (e.g. a fair and respectful treatment by prison staff) and pre-existing characteristics of the prisoners (e.g. personality traits) are related to the course of mental health problems in detention.

Naast een beschrijving van het proefschrift van Overkleeft wordt stilgestaan bij een aantal specifieke onderdelen, waaronder de ontwikkeling van het karakter van de kapitaalvennootschap en recente ontwikkelingen.

Deze bijdrage bespreekt en geeft relevante achtergronden over de beschikking van de voorzieningenrechter op het verzoek van Elliott om een machtiging om een algemene vergadering van AkzoNobel bijeen te roepen. Centraal staan de vragen hoe zo’n verzoek moet worden getoetst en hoeveel beslissingsruimte de voorzieningenrechter daarbij heeft.

De auteur geeft een reactie op het eveneens in dit nummer gepubliceerde artikel van Eikelboom over het convocatierecht (art. 2:110/111 BW) en het agenderingsrecht (art. 2:114a BW) van aandeelhouders in beursvennootschappen. De auteur laat zien dat Eikelboom in zijn beschouwing de verschillen in het toepasselijk juridisch kader voor deze onderscheidenlijke rechten miskent en dat Eikelboom voorts in dit verband een te brede uitleg aan artikel 6 van de Richtlijn Aandeelhoudersrechten uit 2007 geeft.

De auteur reageert op de reactie van Overkleeft op zijn artikel Wat onder de oppervlakte bleef in de rechtspraak rond AkzoNobel (MvO 2017, afl. 10).

Volksvertegenwoordigers die zich binnen een officiële vergadering beledigend uitlaten tegenover andere parlementariërs kunnen hiervoor niet worden vervolgd of civielrechtelijk worden aangesproken. Hetzelfde geldt voor andere delicten, zoals de schending van de geheimhoudingsplicht en het aanzetten tot haat. Het Openbaar Ministerie komt in dergelijke gevallen geen vervolgingsrecht toe. De voorzitter is bevoegd om sanctionerend op te treden. In het huidige regime lijkt de toegevoegde waarde van deze parlementaire immuniteit voor volksvertegenwoordigers achterhaald te zijn, vanwege een ruime uitleg van de vrijheid van meningsuiting voor politici.

The global financial crisis of 2008 and the following public uproar over offshore tax evasion and corporate aggressive tax planning scandals gave rise to unprecedented international cooperation on tax information exchange and coordination on corporate tax reforms. At the behest of the G20, the OECD developed a comprehensive package of ‘consensus-based’ policy reform measures aimed to curb base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) by multinationals and to restore fairness and coherence to the international tax system. The legitimacy of the OECD/G20 BEPS Project, however, has been widely challenged. This paper explores the validity of the legitimacy concerns raised by the various stakeholders regarding the OECD/G20 BEPS Project.

The emergence of global tax governance was triggered by common tax problems, which are now still being faced by international society of nation-states. In the creation of this framework, international institutions have been playing a major role. One of these institutions is the World Bank (Bank). However, those who write about the virtues and vices of the main creators of the framework usually disregard the Bank. This article, therefore, argues that this disregard is not justified because the Bank has also been playing a prominent role. Since two informal decisions taken in the past have contributed to this position of the Bank, the article gives in addition to it answers to the following two related questions: whether these informal decisions of the Bank were legal and if so, what implications, if any, they have for the Bank’s legitimacy.

Criminal groups have traditionally been the focus of criminological research because of the collective dimension of many criminal activities or deviance. However, what constitutes a ‘criminal group’ or how specific criminal groups, like gangs, should be defined, remains open for discussion in the scientific literature. This introductory article highlights a number of recent developments illustrating the blurring boundaries between various criminal groups as defined by both insiders and outsiders. In addition, it suggests that the rise of social media and smartphones is changing the structure and dynamics of criminal groups. Future research should focus on how these (new) criminal groups originate, develop and function, but should also address the role of the group in criminal activities.

Confronted with cases of restrictions of the right to manifest religious beliefs of new religious minorities formed by recent migration movements, the ECtHR and the UNHRC seem to opt for different interpretations and applications of this right, as recent conflicting decisions show. Based on an empirical legal analysis of the two bodies’ decisions on individual complaints, this article finds that these conflicting decisions are part of a broader divergence: While the UNHRC functions as a protector of new minorities against States’ undue interference in their right to manifest their religion, the ECtHR leaves it up to States how to deal with religious diversity brought by new minorities. In addition, a quantitative analysis of the relevant case law showed that the ECtHR is much less likely to find a violation of the right to freedom of religion in cases brought by new religious minorities as opposed to old religious minorities. Although this could be a hint towards double standards, a closer look at the examined case law reveals that the numerical differences can be explained by the ECtHR’s weaker protection of religious manifestations in the public as opposed to the private sphere. Yet, this rule has an important exception: Conscientious objection to military service. By examining the development of the relevant case law, this article shows that this exception bases on a recent alteration of jurisprudence by the ECtHR and that there are similar prospects for change regarding other religious manifestations in the public sphere.

Afgelopen jaar was er veel aandacht voor de nieuwe Corporate Governance Code. De Code kent veel bepalingen die het handelen van bestuurders en commissarissen normeren. Dit artikel behandelt de vraag of bestuurders en commissarissen op dit moment vaak aansprakelijk worden gesteld vanwege schending van de Corporate Governance Code, en of zij in dat geval in rechte wat te vrezen hebben.

This article presents some of the results of a study in which 25 adult men were interviewed who took part in restorative mediation in the French speaking part of Belgium and were desisting from crime. Their narratives were used to find out whether participation in restorative justice influenced positively their journey towards desistance; if so, which factors in restorative mediation supported this change process and how these factors had been helpful. The results suggest that restorative mediation has the potential to contribute to desistance in a humble, but significant way. Core aspects of mediation supported mostly already started desistance processes and they were helpful in a mainly cognitive way. The authors propose to further investigate the specific and helpful ‘presence’ of mediators and to reflect upon the apparent absence in restorative mediation of practical follow-up support towards desistance.

Drawing on material from her extensive study of Russian organized crime, the author sketches a portrait of Semjon Mogilevitsj. This Russian ‘godfather’ enjoys the reputation of being the smartest and highest educated mafia boss worldwide. Indeed Mogilevitsj obtained a master’s degree in Economics with good results, but this alone doesn’t explain his phenomenal successes in criminal as well as in legal business. Describing the steady expansion of his criminal activities from Russia into Israel, the United States, Eastern Europa, Italy and Canada, the author suggests that the social and economic circumstances in Russia just before and during the collapse of the Soviet Union might have served as an ideal playing ground for Mogilevitsj to develop the specific social intelligence and skills needed to successfully run a criminal organization.

In this contribution is looked into the world of serious gaming. What can be the function of these game in a digital context? Elaborate attention is paid to a particular game that has been developed for discussing sexual (health) issues and rights. Although this particular game ‘My Jorley’ has been developed for a Ghanese public of youngsters, the technique behind this game can also be applied in the other prevention programs.

In deze bijdrage behandelt de auteur het arrest Stichting derdengelden/Ontvanger. De auteur onderzoekt naar aanleiding van dit arrest de grenzen van het begrip gemeenschap en bepleit dat er ruimte is om de gemeenschapsregeling ook toe te passen op dergelijke gevallen van spiegelbeeldige gerechtigdheid.

Door de Wkkgz vindt de buitengerechtelijke afwikkeling van medische schadeclaims plaats in het klachtrecht in plaats van het aansprakelijkheidsrecht. Zorgaanbieders moeten zelf proactief en oplossingsgericht schadeclaims onderzoeken en beoordelen. De rol van de patiëntencontactpersoon in het ziekenhuis, van de zorgverlener en de samenwerking tussen ziekenhuis en verzekeraar zijn daarmee ingrijpend veranderd. Dit overzichtsartikel bespreekt de eerste stappen naar implementatie van de Wkkgz, de aard van het klachtrecht, de noodzaak van triage, de werkwijzen van zelfregelende ziekenhuizen, de noodzaak van informed consent, BGK , de zeswekentermijn, de eerste resultaten van de Wkkgz-geschilleninstanties, en het wetsvoorstel tot wijziging van de Wet BIG.