In deze bijdrage wordt het sanctiestelsel in het voorstel voor een Omgevingswet (zoals aangenomen door de Tweede Kamer) besproken aan de hand van een vergelijking met boetesystemen in andere wetten en het advies van de Afdeling advisering van de Raad van State.

This article tries to answer the question whether the right to due process, especially for minors receiving a public prosecutor’s penalty decision in the Netherlands is sufficiently guaranteed. To answer this question, formal legislature with respect to this topic, the concept of ‘due process’ as well as the actual legal guarantees for minors, have been explored. In juvenile criminal law, contrary to adult criminal law, the pedagogic aspect plays an important role. The pedagogic point of view is also taken into account. A recent report by the Attorney General of the Dutch Supreme Court showed undoubtedly that after six years of experience, the processes surrounding the instrument of the public prosecutor’s penalty decision are far from being executed flawlessly. Both from a judicial perspective as well as a pedagogic perspective, this is a serious problem. The most important procedural aspects that require substantial improvement are related to determining guilt, attorney accessibility and the presence of parents.

To improve the way honour cases are dealt with by the Dutch police, a national centre of expertise, the LEC EGG, was set up. When complex cases are at hand, the LEC EGG offers nationwide assistance to the regional police units. In this contribution the authors look into the use of the analysis by the LEC EGG in the courtroom. What role does analysis by the LEC EGG of honour-based violence have in the court’s decision making?

Within the field of criminology, marriage and labour are important determinants for the decline in criminal behavior. However, these factors are seldom researched in the context of historical criminology. By conducting research into crimes against property in Rotterdam, those brought to the Rotterdam correctional court in the 1812-1820 period, this paper attempts to shed light on the topic. Our findings show that a majority of the delinquents in question were employed, while a minority of those female delinquents were married, yet also in gainful employment in most cases. Male adolescents, who had just entered the labour market, were the largest group of male delinquents. The female population of delinquents consisted mostly of women who were close to marriageable age. Thus, it is suggested that labour and marriage supplied insufficient economical stability to inhibit criminal behavior during the 1812-1820 period.

Naasten en nabestaanden van slachtoffers van ernstige misdrijven kunnen, indien zij door de confrontatie met de schokkende gebeurtenis psychische schade lijden, zich met hun vordering tot vergoeding van shockschade voegen in het strafproces. Hoe en in welke mate worden shockschadevorderingen in het strafproces inhoudelijk behandeld, gegeven het feit dat deze vorderingen snel een onevenredige belasting van het strafproces kunnen opleveren? Welke invloed en betekenis heeft de verruiming van het voegingscriterium per 1 januari 2011 hierin? Ter beantwoording van deze vragen hebben de auteurs uitvoerig jurisprudentieonderzoek uitgevoerd naar het ‘lot’ van shockschadevorderingen in het strafproces.

Deze bijdrage gaat in op de ACM-besluiten inzake Burg en Kühne van 25 juli 2015. Met de besluiten deelde ACM boetes uit aan twee producenten van industrieel natuurazijn en vijf van hun medewerkers wegens deelname aan een kartel. In deze bespreking besteden de auteurs aandacht aan (1) de boetes opgelegd aan ‘feitelijk leidinggevenden’ en het impliciete ACM-beleid daaromtrent, (2) de boeteverhoging van 20 procent opgelegd aan een feitelijk leidinggevende, omdat deze zich volgens ACM ten onrechte beriep op zijn zwijgrecht en (3) het nieuwe begrip ‘vereenvoudigde afdoening’, dat in feite neerkomt op een schikking met ACM.

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In this article the authors discuss the opportunities and challenges they experience from the criminal investigation of financial exploitation of the elderly. By sharing knowledge and experience, they stress that the all party approach in this distressing problem, from the viewpoint of criminal investigations, will achieve the best results. This article could thus be seen as a first step, and invitation, to discuss future interventions and policymaking on fighting the exploitation of the elderly to prevent, detect and investigate these crimes.

Older people can become victims of abuse by someone they know and whom they depend on, such as family, friends or professional caregivers. Elder abuse is not always intentional, sometimes it is due to care falling short. Conducting a study to explore the prevalence of elder abuse is difficult. Commissioned by the Dutch State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport, the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) has brought together the current knowledge on this topic using the most recent data drawn from qualitative research, surveys of older persons, professionals and volunteers, and record data. The sources together do not produce an unambiguous picture of the actual number of victims in the Netherlands. All sources produce far lower figures than the estimated 200,000 based on a study of twenty years ago. The numbers found depend strongly on the research method and definition of the phenomenon.

While most restorative justice research would suggest that victims and offenders are often satisfied with their experiences, the number of referrals to these type of programs remain low. This lack of accessibility was the topic of the European Forum for Restorative Justice project, ‘Accessibility and Initiation of Restorative Justice’. This article reports on the project’s findings with regard to several factors which limit greater accessibility, as supported by the attitudes of referral bodies and restorative justice practitioners examined in the frame of this project. The results of previous research and the current empirical research illustrate how accessibility is hindered by (1) lacking or insufficient restorative justice legislation, (2) exclusion criteria regarding which cases may be suitable to restorative justice procedures, (3) a lack of knowledge among legal actors, restorative justice practitioners and the general public about restorative justice and its benefits, (4) the persistence of a retributive legal culture within criminal justice and (5) a need for greater cooperation among those who are involved whether as referral bodies or mediators or facilitators. Qualitative data is presented to provide a better understanding of these elements, in addition to potential solutions that were reported by the respondents. Furthermore, the authors take a closer look at the current situation in the Netherlands, including an overview of the trainings that were developed within the Accessibility project. The results of these trainings reinforce the factors that were identified by previous research and the current empirical research, and aimed to look for solutions to the main barriers to greater accessibility.

Bespreking van de casus Tuitjenhorn, waarbij een huisarts een terminaal zieke patiënt twee injecties toedient, waarna de patiënt overlijdt. Nadat de coassistent de casus bespreekt met haar begeleider bij het AMC, dit tot een melding aan de IGZ leidt en aan de huisarts een tijdelijk verbod tot beroepsuitoefening wordt opgelegd, pleegt de huisarts suïcide. Aandacht wordt besteed aan het Rapport van de Evaluatiecommissie Tuitjenhorn, naar aanleiding van de uitspraak over het opgelegde bevel, aan het handelen van de IGZ en de communicatie van overheidswege.

Certain radical public acts of expression, those which for instance incite hatred or recruit participants for armed conflict, are punishable under criminal law, even when these pronouncements are religiously motivated. This study examines which statements incur punishment, and the role freedom of religion and freedom of expression play when making this assessment.

Het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens (EHRM of Hof) heeft in het verslagjaar 2014-2015 een groot aantal voor het gezondheidsrecht interessante uitspraken gedaan. Een selectie van ruim 50 verkort weergegeven zaken leert dat het Hof zich onder andere heeft uitgesproken over gebrekkige samenwerking in de zorg, de kwaliteit van de lijkschouw, de toegang tot informatie in een deskundigenrapport, de omgang met restembryo’s en het staken van een zinloze behandeling. Deze en andere hieronder te bespreken onderwerpen zijn ook voor Nederland relevant.