Islamic schools are often criticized for indoctrinating children, which would violate the goals of education in a democratic society. This article explores whether, as a matter of principle, parents could legitimately choose to send their child to a school where he or she will be indoctrinated, for example because they believe that at a religious schools the opportunities for a child to be stigmatized are smaller. Besides, the article investigates whether it is plausible that children in Islamic school in the Netherlands are indeed being indoctrinated.

Diverse toezichthouders hebben vertrouwen in ondertoezichtstaanden gekozen als uitgangspunt. Inspecteurs van de Inspectie Gezondheidszorg en Jeugd (IGJ) vinden vertrouwen een lastig te hanteren begrip. Tegelijk geven zij aan dat vertrouwen wel een grote rol speelt bij hun oordeel en handhaving. Ze missen echter handvatten om de afweging van vertrouwen in de zorgaanbieder te kunnen expliciteren en te onderbouwen. Dit is voor de IGJ aanleiding om vanuit het perspectief van de IGJ praktijkonderzoek te doen naar het begrip vertrouwen. Dit leidt tot het afwegingskader.

The author addresses the phenomenon of taxable profit-shifting operations undertaken by multinationals in response to countries competing for corporate tax bases within the European Union. The central question is whether this might be a relic of the past when the European Commission’s proposal for a Council Directive on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base sees the light of day. Or would the EU-wide corporate tax system provide incentives for multinationals to pursue artificial tax base-shifting practices within the EU, potentially invigorating the risk of undue governmental tax competition responses? The author’s tentative answer on the potential for artificial base shifting and undue tax competition is in the affirmative. Today, the issue of harmful tax competition within the EU seems to have been pushed back as a result of the soft law approaches that were initiated in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But things might change if the CCCTB proposal as currently drafted enters into force. There may be a risk that substantial parts of the EU tax base would instantly become mobile as of that day. As the EU Member States at that time seem to have only a single tool available to respond to this – the tax rate – that may perhaps initiate an undesirable race for the EU tax base, at least theoretically.

Naar aanleiding van het arrest Reaal/Athlon zal worden ingegaan op de vraag of bij de vaststelling van zaakschade altijd volledig moet worden geabstraheerd van de concrete omstandigheden van het geval, of dat er situaties denkbaar zijn waarin dergelijke omstandigheden toch van (enige) invloed kunnen zijn op het vaststellen van de schade, ook indien de aldus vastgestelde schade kleiner is dan de op abstracte wijze vastgestelde schade.

Dutch local governments increasingly decide to contract private security officers for surveillance and enforcement tasks in the public space. This article presents an analysis of the daily work of these private security officers. Local governments contract these private workers because they are faced with problems of social disorder and crime. Although the police should formally manage the work of these private security workers, in practice this task is hardly realized. These private workers are faced with four problems: their work is boring, they are uncertain about what they are expected to do, don’t know exactly what their formal powers are, and are unsatisfied about their lack of means for self-defence. Although they don’t differ in their work style from their public colleagues, their position as private worker and the flexible job they have, are hard to reconcile with what they are expected to do (like reassuring citizens).

This paper deals with the question of how a partly privatized security sector could be regulated. A central aim of this regulation should be the control of security as a public good. Three models of regulation are analyzed. The current practice of this regulation in the Netherlands shows a serious lack of effectiveness. One of our main conclusions is that neither the state nor the private sector is able to enforce this regulation on their own. However, it is assumed that the state should have a central and integrated regulatory role in this field, with more attention paid to the practical implementation of it, with the power and will to sanction private agencies if necessary. In addition managers of private security companies should adopt a role as public managers with a public moral duty. Regulation of security is faced with a double problematic, not only the horizontal fragmentation of the field, but also the vertical fragmentation, often resulting in a serious gap between managers and those in the field, both in the public and the private sector. This implies that the regulation should not only rest on the state and on self-regulation by the sector at management level, but also on the promotion of a practical ethic for security workers to steer and regulate their daily work.

Beëindigen behandelingsovereenkomst naar aanleiding van incident; geen overleg huisarts met patiënt; aantekening reden beëindiging in medisch dossier; incident onvoldoende om gewichtige redenen voor beëindiging behandelingsovereenkomst aan te nemen; aanleiding om gesprek met patiënt aan te gaan; toepassen wederhoor voorafgaand aan aantekening: klacht deels gegrond.

Consumer fraud seems to be widespread, yet little research is devoted to understanding why certain social groups are more vulnerable to this type of victimization than others. The present paper deals with internet consumer fraud victimization, and uses an explanatory model that combines insights from self control theory and routine activity theory. The results from large-scale victimization survey data among the Dutch general population (N=6,201) reveal that people with low self-control run substantially higher victimization risk, as well as people performing ‘risky’ routine activities, such as online shopping and participation in online forums. Though a minority share of the self-control-victimization link is indirect – because people with low self-control are more involved in risk-enhancing routine activities – a large direct effect on internet fraud victimization remains. This suggests that, within similar situations, people with poor impulse control respond differently to deceptive online commercial offers.

In deze bijdrage wordt onderzocht in hoeverre het begrip zorgplicht een rol speelt of zou kunnen spelen in concernverhoudingen, binnen groepen van vennootschappen. Daarbij wordt er in het bijzonder ingegaan op de moedermaatschappij of concernholding. In dit kader komen onder meer de volgende vragen aan bod: welk belang wordt er met zorgplicht gediend? Op welke wijze dient de moedermaatschappij de zorgplichten te vervullen? Wat zijn de gevolgen van schending van de zorgplicht? En hoe dient het fenomeen zorgplicht tegen de achtergrond van de daarmee beoogde doelen, als deze al expliciet gemaakt kunnen worden, te worden beoordeeld?

Er bestaan in verhoudingen tussen een burger en de overheid drie vormen van doorwerking van het publiekrecht in het privaatrecht. De eerste vorm van doorwerking hangt samen met de rechtsmachtverdeling tussen de burgerlijke rechter en de bestuursrechter. De tweede vorm van doorwerking hangt samen met de voorrang van publiekrechtelijke normen in het privaatrecht. Deze voorrang kan op twee manieren worden bereikt. Het is mogelijk dat publiekrechtelijke normen op onaanvaardbare wijze worden doorkruist indien gebruik gemaakt wordt van een privaatrechtelijke bevoegdheid. Een andere wijze waarop deze voorrang kan worden bewerkstelligd is het opnemen van een regeling in het publiekrecht van materie die ook in het BW is geregeld. De derde vorm van doorwerking betreft de doorwerking van publiekrechtelijke regels via open normen in het privaatrecht. Met het oog op de toekomst rijst de vraag welke van deze drie vormen van doorwerking in de toekomst zullen blijven bestaan en welke het meest prominent zullen worden.

Economists like to think in terms of markets, where supply and demand meet. There are, however, also ‘real’ criminal markets where either supply and demand of illegal goods or services can meet, or where perpetrators ‘receive’ a financial penalty for his/her illegal acts. This article focuses on economic research in the field of these markets, especially where it concerns victimless crimes.