This contribution examines shareholder capitalism and shareholder idealism. It is also argued that excessive rewards – often a result of shareholder capitalism – fuel fraud. Supervisory directors and shareholders should therefore act as a counterforce and fulfil a corrective role. |
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Johan Derksen: bezig baasje en durfal |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Auteurs | Professor Dr. Janine Janssen |
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Johan Derksen als sleutelfiguur |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Auteurs | Dr. Bas van Stokkom en Professor Dr. Janine Janssen |
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Johan Derksen: BN’er en knuffelhufterOver volksvermaak en het onaantastbare imago van de voetballerij |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2020 |
Auteurs | Dr. Bas van Stokkom |
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Discussie en debat |
Aandeelhouderskapitalisme en excessieve beloningen wakkeren fraude aan |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | shareholder capitalism, excessive rewards, fraude, shareholder idealism, long-term value creation |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. mr. Marcel Pheijffer |
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HebzuchtOver de normalisering van een exces |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Greed, Profit, Trade, Interest |
Auteurs | Dr. Jeroen Linssen |
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In this article the ways in which philosophers have thought about greed are discussed. From antiquity until the Renaissance greed was considered to be a sin. This immoderate desire had to be stopped because it constitutes a threat to the wellbeing of both an individual and society as a whole. This changed since the beginning of the modern era, when a more positive attitude towards this excessive desire arose. The new opinion was: private vices lead to public benefits, and thus the normalization of an excess came about. Greed no longer was considered to be a sin or vice, but instead to be a harmless passion that had a good effect on the welfare of society. The financial crisis of 2008 may have induced some doubts concerning the idea that greed is good, but a real change in opinion has not yet occurred. |
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Drugsgebruik, exces en criminaliteitEen historisch perspectief |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | history of drugs, tobacco, drug policy, civilizing process, opium |
Auteurs | Dr. Stephen Snelders |
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This article discusses the problem of excessive drug use from a historical perspective. Cultural ambivalence towards excessive use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs has roots going back into the seventeenth century. A case study is presented of the introduction and adaptation of tobacco in the Dutch republic. Dutch national and colonial drug regulation is discussed. It is concluded that regulations have been primarily motivated by anxieties about excessive behaviour among the labouring classes, endangering public order, and non-white users in the colonies. This has led to criminalization of excessive behaviour, and to the creation of a criminal underground economy. |
Discussie en debat |
Overdaad schaadtPleidooi voor een verlichte consumptiedruk |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | Consumer society, Excess consumption, Consumer culture, Green criminology, Corona crisis |
Auteurs | Dr. Hans Dagevos |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The lifeblood of contemporary consumer capitalism is ever-growing and accelerating human needs for new consumer goods and services. Needs that remain unsatisfied on the one hand but defy the carrying capacity of planet Earth on the other. Anything but a win-win situation. Although excess harms, the infrastructure of consumption pays full service to perpetuate and cultivate the ‘more and faster’ orientation of today’s consumers. It is believed that we can cope with excess by taking efficiency measures and paying attention to recycling and refurbishing. This article, however, points out that there is need to rethink consumption and reconsider prevalent orientations dedicated to excess consumption more fundamentally. |
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‘Porn’ graffiti in public spaceBetween moralization and agonism |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2020 |
Trefwoorden | porn, graffiti, public space, street art, morality |
Auteurs | Prof. Dr. Lucas Melgaço |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Sexualized graffiti has emerged on walls in Brussels since the beginning of 2013, generating fierce debates. Perceived as street art and a welcome challenge to heteropatriarchy by some and as obscenity and vulgarity by others, these pieces highlight the inherently contested character of public spaces. The controversies around the presence of these paintings in public space relate to what in the literature has become known as moral geographies, that is, the spatial aspect of morality. What should one do about these supposed ‘porn’ pieces: regulate their existence and control potential tensions and conflicts, or let frictions emerge between the partisans and the opponents of such urban interventions? Who gets to say what should be tolerated and what should be regulated in public space? In this opinion piece, I situate this issue between two ends: an agonistic one, in which contestation is the rule; and an excessively regulatory one, in which public space is over-rationalized and normalized. |
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Participatieve VideoEen onderzoeksmethodiek die gewenst gedrag visualiseert en dialoog stimuleert |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2019 |
Trefwoorden | Facilitator, Researcher, Evaluator, Participatory video, Development |
Auteurs | Simon Koolwijk |
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Diversen |
Lokale oplossingen voor problemen in asielopvang: de ‘vluchtelingencrisis’ als window of opportunity |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2017 |
Trefwoorden | asylum reception, local turn, Plan Einstein, experimental governance |
Auteurs | dr. Karin Geuijen, dr. Rianne Dekker en dr. Caroline Oliver |
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During the recent ‘refugee crisis’, governments have been confronted with various problems concerning asylum reception. In several locations in the Netherlands, as well as elsewhere in Europe and beyond, new local forms of experimenting around the issue of asylum reception have begun. One example is Utrecht’s ‘Plan Einstein’. In Overvecht, a district of the city, an office building has been converted into an asylum shelter, where 400 asylum seekers live together with 38 non-refugee youngsters from Utrecht. The Centre runs courses and activities, offered to both asylum seekers (including those who do not yet have a residence status) and local residents. Employing the concepts of ‘multilevel governance’ and ‘experimental governance’, this article indicates why this initiative was able to be realized at this location and at this time. |
Diversen |
Mainstreaming van integratiebeleid: een beleidsreactie op superdiversiteit? |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2017 |
Trefwoorden | immigrant integration governance, mainstreaming, superdiversity, Europe |
Auteurs | Ilona van Breugel Msc en Dr. Peter Scholten |
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This paper links the discussion on superdiversity and its call for multidimensional shifts in migration patterns and the ‘diversification of diversity’ this has led to, to the development of immigrant integration policies that tend to focus on traditional migrant groups. Considered from the superdiversity perspective these groups are an simplification of the diversity within and between the migrant population. Furthermore, the diversification of the society as a whole calls into question who should be targeted for immigrant integration policies at all, and in what direction they should point, in a society that has changed itself as a consequence of immigration (Crul, 2016). How do these questions speak to the world of immigrant integration policy making? This paper links this question to the trend of ‘mainstreaming’ in immigrant integration governance. Across Europe traditional immigrant integration policies have been replaced by universal policies, generic policies, targeted at the entire population, such as broad city-citizenship approaches or incorporating former immigrant integration policies in generic educational or community policies. This paper discusses material from different European cases between 2000-2014 to explore whether this broad, mainstreaming approach can be considered a policy-answer to the questions and challenges the superdiversity discussion raises for immigrant integration policies. |
Diversen |
Superdiversiteit als duizelingwekkend perspectief – maar niet onproblematisch |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2017 |
Trefwoorden | superdiversity, globalization, network society, integration |
Auteurs | Prof. dr. Hans Boutellier |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
The ‘condition of superdiversity’ creates a dazzling perspective that matches the image of a networking society without unambiguous collective entities. Society consists of a caleidoscopic set of identities, relationships, languages and gods in a context of permeable geographic areas. That brings many problems, but the country that is aware of this diversity does have ultimately the best papers for the future. |
Diversen |
What about the mainstream? |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2017 |
Trefwoorden | superdiversity, mainstream policy, culturalism, identity, integration |
Auteurs | prof. dr. Jan Willem Duyvendak |
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Advocates of superdiversity have a potential blind spot for differences in symbolic power that affect integration. Thus, they quickly ignore class inequalities and racism. But the main point of criticism is that superdiversity neglects the mainstream, the dominant ways of thinking and doing in a society. The majority of the Netherlands has become more and more culturally homogenous: after a long time of cultural polarization (the long decade of the sixties), the majority has taken over consensually libertarian ideals. The implication of this is that cultural diversity is experienced as a growing problem. Citizens, including migrants, must show that they feel connected with the Netherlands. |
Diversen |
(Super)diversiteit en onveiligheidsgevoelens |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2017 |
Trefwoorden | ethnic diversity, super diversity, fear of crime |
Auteurs | dr. Erik Snel en Iris Glas |
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Contemporary cities are increasingly characterised by ‘super diversity’. As Putnam’s thesis about the negative social consequences of ethnic diversity is correct, we may assume that growing diversity also negatively affects crime and fear of crime in cities. After all: the more diversity, the less social cohesion and the less collective efficacy, ultimately resulting in higher crime rates. More diversity also implies less (public) familiarity in neighbourhoods and more fear of crime. On the other hand, some qualitative studies show that particularly residents of relatively homogeneous districts perceive migrants as threatening. Migrants are seen as less threatening when neighbourhood residents are familiarized with ‘the other’ and when there are more interethnic contacts. Various foreign and Dutch studies show an independent effect of ethnic diversity in the neighbourhood on fear of crime. However, this effect disappears when other resident characteristics are included into the analysis. Residents of ethnically diverse and deprived districts are generally less satisfied with their neighbourhood, have less trust in the government and are more often victimized. Precisely these perceptions and experiences explain why they more often feel unsafe in their own neighbourhood. |
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Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2016 |
Trefwoorden | role models, responsivity, gang prevention, desistance, applied science |
Auteurs | dr. Jan Dirk de Jong |
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How could positive security policies take shape? On what kind of empirical research should these policies be based? And what sort of concepts would we need for this development? If the starting point is to understand safety as a positive notion, it seems wise to avoid the terms of war that are prevailing in current policy programs on security and public safety (fighting, frontline and city-marines). On the other hand some type of decisive jargon might be unavoidable when one sets out to have an actual impact on youth crime policies and policy makers. Is it possible to keep using some type of military terminology in research benefitting the development of positive security policies and still emphasize a positive composition? This dilemma has arisen in recent research activities on positive, street-oriented role models in response to Dutch problematic youth groups and youth at risk. De Jong argues that with the sensitizing concept of the ‘liaison officer’ it might be possible to encourage a positive change through applied social science. |
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Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2016 |
Trefwoorden | securitas, rule of law, Polizeiwissenschaft, politeia, democracy |
Auteurs | prof. dr. Bob Hoogenboom |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Positive security is a very promising development in criminology. The ‘movement’ reconnects the current debate on crime with the origins of ancient Greek thinking on the positive nature of politeia, policy and policing. Securitas - providing safety and security for the common good - has a long and rich tradition. Good governance is about many things, but foremost about providing security in society. Polizeiwissenschaft in 18th and 19th century Prussia made a distinction between Wohlfahrt- and Sicherheitspolizei. |
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UNGASS 2016: in de Weense houdgreep |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2016 |
Trefwoorden | UNGASS, drug policy, war on drugs, harm reduction |
Auteurs | Pien Metaal MA |
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This contribution aims to discuss the main outcomes of the recent UNGASS (United Nations General Assembly Special Session) on Drugs that took place in New York from 19 to 21 April 2016. Based on my own participation in the preparatory discussions and political negotiations as civil society representative (through the work of NGO Transnational Institute), I argue that political divisions and entrenched institutional dynamics have transformed what could have been the beginning of the end of the war on drugs into a wasted opportunity for changing the status quo of the present world regime regarding the production, trafficking and use of illegal drugs. Despite high initial expectations after several governments expressed a clear concern about the effects of purely repressive policies, and the UN decision to organize the session 3 years earlier than planned, very soon it was clear that the session would not imply real changes in the current policies. The agenda setting was non-transparent and controlled by the most conservative factions and countries, largely excluding the views from NGO’s and academics in the final adopted resolution. The final document poorly reflects the rich discussions and developments that are taking place in many countries of the world, particularly the debates and policy developments in ‘the Americas’. A positive note is that the unchanged international UN conventions on drugs can hardly cope with developments taking place on cannabis policies in countries such as Canada, Uruguay, United States or Jamaica. Also other countries are more and more prepared to push for change on other essential questions, including the application of death penalty for drug offences, the access to controlled medicines, or the explicit application of ‘harm reduction’ approaches. |
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Veranderingen in de visie op druggebruik – van een strafrechtelijk naar een gezondheidsparadigma |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 2 2016 |
Trefwoorden | drug policy, paradigms, criminalisation, harm reduction, health problem |
Auteurs | drs. Franz Trautmann |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
Various studies show that the views on the drug problem and appropriate policy responses have undergone profound changes from the 1960s onward. This article is analysing one of these changes, the decriminalisation of drug use, reflecting a fundamental change of view: understanding drug use as a health issue and not as crime. A useful heuristic to understand this type of change is Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm concept. He sees a paradigm as a set of beliefs that are shared by a scientific community and accepted by a wider community. A paradigm change is therefore a socio-psychological process rather than rooted in new scientific or research facts. |
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Satire en politiek incorrecte taal: de premie op taboe-doorbreken |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 3 2015 |
Trefwoorden | satire, taboo, political correctness, free speech, the right to insult |
Auteurs | Dr. Bas van Stokkom |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
This essay argues that the breaking of taboos is an effective means to increase one’s definition-power and discredit the establishment. But rhetorical warfare and satire may also turn into its opposite: strengthening fanaticism. First, the author discusses the controversy surrounding the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo and the militant pleas for maximum artistic freedom, articulated by Salman Rushdie and others. In the second part of this essay the author argues that advocates of an inviolable right to freedom of expression, including the right to insult, may create their own taboos. Within the tabloid press and the outrage industry this ‘right’ gets more aggressive functions. Finally, some ambiguities about political correctness and the racism-taboo are discussed. |
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De ondergewaardeerde democratic underlabourer?Over toegepast onderzoek ten behoeve van de rechtshandhaving en veiligheidszorg binnen de heersende academische cultuur |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift over Cultuur & Criminaliteit, Aflevering 1 2015 |
Trefwoorden | law enforcement, academic culture, applied research, public criminology |
Auteurs | dr. Janine Janssen en dr. Maartje van der Woude |
SamenvattingAuteursinformatie |
In this opinion piece the authors reflect upon the way in which applied research for law enforcement and safety management is valued within the prevailing academic culture. By drawing from the scholarship on public criminology, the authors introduce the democratic underlabourer as an important yet often undervalued and underrepresented figure capable to bridge potential gaps between academia and the practical field of law enforcement and safety management. By getting organized in the form of a guild, democratic underlabourers would increase their clout and visbility. |