Since 2007 the police and the public prosecution service in the Netherlands can apply special investigative powers in case of ‘indications’ of a terrorist offense. To investigate signs of terrorism, a suspicion is no longer needed. The underlying assumption behind this extension is that the ‘old’ legislation offers insufficient opportunities to investigate signs of terrorism in an early phase. In this article we examine this assumption about the action space of investigating officers. For the period 2007-2011, we examined how investigating officers responded to signs of terrorism in practice, what investigative powers they used, and how they – as street level bureaucrats – handled their discretionary authority. The research shows that police and judiciary officials are very well able to investigate signs of terrorism with the already existing powers, and that they have made little use of the new ‘indications’ criterion

The current study examined the extent to which risk factors and treatment readiness were related to prison based treatment engagement (i.e. participation and completion), using a large sample of detainees who were a candidate for the Prevention of Recidivism program. Analyses showed that offenders who were treatment ready were over two times more likely to complete treatment programs, compared to offenders who were not. Risk factors did, for the most part, not correlate with treatment participation and completion. Outcomes underlined the importance of motivational aspects and showed the significance of enhancing treatment readiness amongst correctional resocialisation participants.

De tweede evaluatie van de Wet op de beroepen in de individuele gezondheidszorg, ruim tien jaar na de eerste evaluatie verschenen, komt tot gelijksoortige bevindingen als die eerste evaluatie uit 2002. De wettelijke regeling is niet erg bekend. Het tuchtrecht is aan herziening toe. Toch is er sprake van een gewijzigde context, waarin de Wet BIG door nieuwe kwaliteitsregulering de meer bescheiden status heeft gekregen van een borging van de basiskwaliteit van de beroepsbeoefenaar via opleiding. De evaluatie ziet nadrukkelijker een rol voor de IGZ in het tuchtrecht, dat concurreert met het bestuursrecht.

In deze kroniek worden de besluiten en informele zienswijzen besproken die ACM in 2013 op het gebied van het kartelverbod en het verbod van misbruik van economische machtspositie heeft genomen. De voor de toepassing van het mededingingsrecht aangewezen bestuursrechters wezen in totaal zeventien uitspraken in kartel- en daarmee gerelateerde zaken. In 2013 viel ook definitief het doek voor de NMa. Na een periode van ruim vijftien jaar waarin de NMa het mededingingsrecht in Nederland op de kaart zette, ging de toezichthouder op in ACM. Kortom, er viel ook in dit verslagjaar weer het nodige te beleven.

Sentencing research focusing solely on unsuspended imprisonment does no justice to the practice of sentencing, where many other punishment types are imposed – often conjunctly. To investigate to what extent this imprisonment bias might have caused incomplete and thereby biased findings, we compare the effects of offender characteristics for imprisonment to those for other sanction types, as well as to a model combining sanction types. Findings suggest that the effects of offender characteristics differ per sanction type. When combinations of sanction types are taken into account, some offender characteristics do no longer have mitigating or aggravating effects, or the effects even inverted. Hence, future sentencing research should aim to include all sentences imposed.