This article discusses the importance of reflection for prison staff. Their work is both physical and emotionally incriminating. That increases risk on turnover, burn-out, psychosomatic diseases and negative experiences with prisoners. To render all challenges in their work it’s important to build up resiliency. One of the means to stimulate resilience is organized reflection. It is described how guided by experts, reflecting on own experiences can contribute to resilience of prison employees and strengthen their learning capacity. That is done by literature study and a description of experiences with organized reflection in PI Vught.

Het besef dat milieucriminaliteit hoofdzakelijk wordt gepleegd om er geld mee te verdienen is, anders dan bij ‘traditionele’ vormen van georganiseerde criminaliteit zoals drugs- en mensenhandel, van betrekkelijk recente datum. Om die reden is er langere tijd minder geïnvesteerd in financiële capaciteit bij milieuteams bij de Nationale Politie, Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport en de Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit. De laatste jaren is getracht om deze achterstand in te lopen. In dit artikel wordt de huidige stand van zaken besproken aangaande de financiële focus en het strafrechtelijk afpakken van crimineel vermogen bij milieucriminaliteit.

De orator bespreekt het uitdijend rechtsgebied, met als kern de Wft, de evolutie van het handhavingsmodel met zijn open normen en buitengerechtelijke afdoening en ten slotte de legaliteit en legitimiteit van het financieel strafrecht. De recensent vraagt zich af, of de door de orator genoemde rechtsbeginselen wel de rechtsbeginselen (kunnen) zijn die het financieel strafrecht kunnen normeren, nu het rechtsgebied ‘in het gareel’ wordt gehouden door beginselen van commuun strafrecht, bestuursrecht en Europees recht. Hoe moet het met de begrippen als daderschap en samenloop in de straftoemeting? Het is een weerbarstige materie.

This narrative aims to identify a number of challenges for the future of (green) criminology. It discusses what the three traditional criminological questions about criminalization, etiology and the social reaction imply in a ‘green’ context. For each of those topics, we analyse where the goals of green and mainstream criminology align and pay attention to research projects on these topics in the Netherlands and Belgium. In the end, this allows us to identify the following challenges for the future of (green) criminology: theoretical foundations, methodological creativity, interdisciplinary research projects and dialogue, and a research focus that goes beyond a preoccupation with the Global North.

Nederlandse toezichthouders worstelen met schadelijk maar legaal ondernemingsgedrag. Dit artikel laat spanningsvelden zien die toezichthouders in dit kader ondervinden, en plaatst dit in een kader van vier mogelijke taakopvattingen. Een dialoog over deze spanningsvelden en taakopvattingen kan de discrepantie verkleinen tussen wat toezichthouders doen en wat de samenleving van hen verwacht.

The concept of undermining or subversive crime seems to be linked undistinguishably to organized crime and both terms are sometimes used synonymously. Definitions of the phenomenon are sometimes based on its effects, while others have their focus on its manifestations. Discussion on the underlying causes is lacking. Regularly, activities that actually do not relate to undermining are labeled as such.
This reflection critically examines and evaluates the concept of undermining. The central question is what has to be understood under the concept of undermining and, above all: what not? The phenomenon is further explored, with the aim of stimulating scientific debate and empirical research. The role of the government and other institutions in facilitating undermining is explicitly discussed as well as the possibilities to strengthen their resilience.

It has become evident that the use of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs) is becoming an important societal issue, with ramifications extending beyond elite sport. A particular concern of authorities is that the majority of PIEDs are not legally obtained through a physician, by means of a prescription, but instead are illegally purchased on the illicit market. Currently little research exists on the illegal production and supply of PIEDs. However, understanding illicit PIED markets is important for policy decisions as knowledge on the production and supply of these substances may assist in designing law enforcement efforts, harm reduction initiatives and other measures. This article will, therefore, focus on the production and supply of PIEDs in Belgium and the Netherlands. Specifically, it will examine the general characteristics of PIED suppliers and the ways in which the behaviour of dealers are influenced by cultural factors. In particular the role of the legal profession of PIED suppliers is examined, taking the fitness industry as an example. This research is based on a content analysis of 64 PIED-dealing cases initiated by criminal justice agencies in the Netherlands (N=33) and Belgium (N=31). This article illustrates that the dealing of PIEDs is a rather specialised business and that not everyone has the suitable ties, opportunities and/or knowledge to enter the PIED market. Many PIED dealers are already devoted to a gym, sport, medical, or other subculture before becoming involved in dealing. Importantly, the embeddedness of PIED-related supply-side activities in legitimate professions, roles, and institutional settings form an integral part of the market culture these dealers engage in. We, therefore, need to examine the production, distribution and use of PIEDs, as embedded within a diverse combination of social, economic and cultural processes, in which none is simply reducible to the other.

This article describes the developments in the use of analytical methods and technics for criminological research in the Netherlands since the beginning of the eighties. The author focuses on quantitative research methods. While classical multivariate technics like (M)AN(C)OVA, canonic correlation analysis and LISREL were dominant until the beginning of the new century, new multivariate analytical methods appeared from 2005 onwards. Especially the analysis of life course trajectories of criminal offenders caught on. The author also discusses various methods to measure the size of crime, like randomized response and capture-recapture, as well as methods identifying the causes of crime. In this latter field the use of fixed-effects methods and the propensity score matching technic has expanded considerably in the last couple of years. When it comes to explaining why people commit crime, quantitative methods do not suffice. The author argues that thorough quantitative methods can reveal the context in which criminal acts occur. The wider use of so-called mixed methods (quantitative as well as qualitative) could contribute to a deeper understanding of crime and stimulate theoretical development. In doing so these methods contribute considerably to understanding why people commit crime.