In deze bijdrage bespreken de auteurs de voorgestelde uitsluitingsgrond in geval van sexting onder jongeren. Zij bespreken de relatie tussen sexting en kinderporno alsmede het beschermd belang. Hoewel de uitzonderingsgrond als positief wordt beschouwd, plaatsen de auteurs enkele kritische kanttekeningen bij de uitsluitingsgrond. Zij laten zich uit over hoe de bestanddelen ‘als leeftijdsgenoot’ en ‘gelijkwaardige situatie’ moeten worden ingevuld. Verder signaleren zij een discrepantie tussen het delict kinderporno en de exceptie voor wat betreft de vaststelling van de leeftijd. Ten slotte bespreken de auteurs of de gelijkwaardige situatie na uitwisseling van de weergaven nog moet bestaan, en hoe moet worden omgegaan met een eventueel verwijderverzoek van de afgebeelde persoon.

Een gegarandeerde beschikbaarheid van innovatieve vaccins is onmisbaar in een wereld waar levensbedreigende infectieziekten steeds vaker voorkomen. Het risico dat vaccins bijwerkingen hebben en tot letsel leiden is daarbij onvermijdelijk. Het verhalen van vaccinatieschade via het aansprakelijkheidsrecht blijkt gecompliceerd. De auteur onderzoekt alternatieve systemen voor vergoeding van schade door vaccinaties. Vertrekpunt daarbij is Amerikaans onderzoek op dit terrein. Zij concludeert dat een no-faultschadefonds met een gedeeltelijke immuniteit van vaccinproducenten de meest geschikte weg is om vaccinatieschade te vergoeden zonder dat de ontwikkeling van vaccins in gevaar komt. De auteur doet enkele suggesties over de invulling van een dergelijk fonds.

In a vignette study, we investigated the extent to which factors may mitigate the relative ‘unattractiveness’ of one-time offenders as cohabitation partners. These factors include having a job, not having a criminal record and the amount of time that has passed since the offence was committed. This was done by asking students to advise a hypothetical person whether he or she should start cohabiting with his or her partner who had offended once. The factors of interest were systematically varied. Our findings showed a more positive cohabitation advice when the offender had committed the offence relatively long ago. Our findings also showed a more positive cohabitation advice when the offender was employed. This is an important finding, as this may indicate that being employed also helps ex-offenders getting their lives back on track with respect to cohabitation.

In the fight against terrorism, administrative measures are increasingly applied. This is called the administrative approach on terrorism. A recent bill seeks to the withdrawal of the Dutch citizenship of those who are suspected of certain terrorist activities abroad and when such is needed in the context of national security. Under this bill it is made possible to withdraw the Dutch citizenship of those who voluntarily join a terrorist group abroad. The idea behind this proposed administrative measure is to protect the national security of the Netherlands, by banning those who voluntarily joined a jihadi organization and pose a threat to national security due to their return. The bill has several major drawbacks: the limited legal protection of the persons concerned, the possible criminal nature of this measure and doubts about its effectiveness.

Young people in residential health care are experimenting with sexual behavior and sexual boundaries just like other young people do. But unlike youth in ‘normal’ circumstances, they often face an increased risk of becoming victims or perpetrators of sexual problematic behavior. Professionals often find it difficult to deal adequately with sexual behavior. The ‘Flag system’ is a method that helps them to assess sexual behavior adequately by applying six criteria, and rate satiation with four different ‘flags’ (green = normal behavior, yellow = risky behavior, red = mildly sexual abusive behavior, black = severely sexual abusive behavior). It provides guidelines to react in a way that supports normal behavior and addresses problematic behavior. A set of drawings illustrate situations that range from normal sexual behavior to severely abusive behavior, which can be used to discuss with young people or with colleagues. The original Flag system was developed by Sensoa, a Belgian experts center on sexuality. The original version was developed for use with children from 0 to 18, and therefore an adaptation was necessary to fit the needs of adolescents in residential youth care.
In a 4-year project, a partnership of researchers, program developers and professional educators, all experts in sexual health, develops an adapted version of the Flag system. The project provided a theoretical underpinning for the method, and a conceptual framework of goals and activities for the training program that is mandatory for those who want to work with the Flag system in a professional context. Also, drawings and guidelines were adapted to the context of residential youth care. This version is currently piloted in twelve institutions for residential youth care. Also, schools for higher professional education in social work are involved in a number of project activities to enhance their training programs in order to improve knowledge, skills and comfort of future youth workers to discuss sexual matters with young people.

In the Netherlands more and more criminal lawyers recognize the importance of Restorative Justice. The author illustrates this on the basis of several criminal cases in different phases of the criminal process. Under conditions Restorative Justice is of importance for all parties, including the suspect/offender. Criminal lawyers have to find the courage to overcome cold feet, so that they can fully meet the needs and interests of their clients.

In the Netherlands honour based violence is often associated with cases that take place in a Turkish context. But honour codes can be found all over the world. In order to develop a more profound understanding of honour based violence it is therefore important to study this phenomenon in different social and cultural circumstances. In this contribution attention is paid towards the experiences of young men from Curaçao that live on the fringes of Dutch society. How do they perceive honour and the relationship with the use of violence?

Als het gaat om zorg voor minderjarigen, worden de uitgangspunten uit het familie- en jeugdrecht – de ouderlijke autonomie staat voorop en de belangen van het kind zijn een bepalende factor – in het gezondheidsrecht niet altijd voldoende gewaarborgd. Toestemming van beide ouders met gezag, ook na scheiding, levert voor artsen soms knelpunten op. Bij vermoedens van kindermishandeling of ‘niet-pluis’ gevoelens heeft de arts vanuit een zorgrelatie met het kind een bijzondere verantwoordelijkheid. Bepleit wordt dat het (gezondheids)recht op bepaalde punten aanpassing behoeft en dat de wetgever bij wijzigingen en vernieuwingen in het jeugdzorg- en jeugdbeschermingsdomein het gezondheidsrecht uit boek 7 BW niet vergeet.