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Auteur(s): G. Vermeulen ISBN: 9789046603260 Recent European Union policy discussions have again highlighted the urgent need for consistent recording and analysis of data relating to trafficking in human beings. Without such a framework, the Union’s ability to assess the scale and nature of the problem and, consequently, to formulate effective policy responses is severely impaired. MONTRASEC – a model for monitoring trafficking in human beings, sexually exploited and missing children – demonstrates that real progress can be made in addressing these long standing difficulties. Building on the work undertaken in the previous SIAMSECT research, a practical IT-tool has been developed by which the three phenomena can be described, interpreted and analysed in an integrated and multidisciplinary fashion. The IT tool also provides National Rapporteurs or similar mechanisms with enhanced and uniform reporting capacity. Recognising the European Union’s emerging policy line, the MONTRASEC IT tool provides a building block by which the European Commission or a future European Monitoring Centre on THB can make horizontal comparison between the reports of the member states. This book describes how a workable IT tool with contents based on international legal instruments and definitions concerning the three phenomena, has been designed and tested by a range of operational agencies in two separate EU member states. Critical questions relating to compliance with both member state and European data protection and privacy legislation are addressed alongside the need to ensure the highest possible levels of security for sensitive personal data relating to both victims and authors. Furthermore, a CD is attached to this book, containing a live demonstration of all the features and functions of the MONTRASEC IT tool. “The MONTRASEC demo” shows that it is actually possible to move beyond theoretical discussions concerning data collection to a point where agencies operating in the field are prepared to work within a unified and consistent data collection regime, inputting “live” data which can thereafter be analysed at member state and European Union level. This book is essential reading for EU policy makers, judicial and law enforcement authorities and organisations working in the fields of trafficking in human beings, sexually exploited and missing children both in the European Union and in a broader international context. It will also appeal to the research community and anyone with an interest in justice and home affairs or criminal policy initiatives in the European Union. Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): Marc Cools, Brice De Ruyver, Marleen Easton, Lieven Pauwels, Paul Ponsaers, Gudrun Vande Walle, Tom Vander Beken, Freya Vander Laenen, Gert Vermeulen & Gerwinde Vynckier (Eds.) ISBN: 9789046603277 In nowadays’ globalised society an international exchange of ideas and views is indispensable within the field of social sciences, including criminology and criminal justice studies. The Research Group Governance of Security wants to foster contemporary international discourses on issues of crime and crime control. Therefore, GofS started a Research Paper Series, combining theoretical and empirical articles on issues reflecting the research activities of GofS. This research group is collaboration between Ghent University and Ghent University College in Belgium. GofS is concentrating its research around the study of administrative and judicial policy that has been developed with respect to new issues of crime and insecurity. Volume 3 provides new empirical data, theories and analyses on Safety, Societal Problems and Citizens’ Perceptions. Some articles in Volume 3 focus especially on issues of conceptualisation and measurement of key constructs in the study of security in its broadest meaning (from fear of crime to corruption) some articles present tests of theoretical models derived from theoretical criminology, and finally some articles focus on different institutional reactions towards crime and drug-related problems (e.g. policing, the conflict of interests between private companies and authorities and restorative justice). Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): A. Pemberton ISBN: 9789046603291 The source disciplines of victimology are social and clinical psychology on the one hand and criminology and law on the other. Research concerning victims in the criminal justice system suffers from the fact that the law-related and psychology-related disciplines are barely on speaking terms with each other. Attempting to overcome this victimological divide is a common theme of the nine articles in The Cross-over . The subject matter is diverse. A number of the articles discuss restorative justice procedures like victim-offender mediation. But the collection also includes an analysis of different interest groups representing victims, the controversies in implementing victim impact statements and even an article focusing on victims'' reactions to terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda. The book offers a fresh and insightful view of victims of crime and their interaction with the criminal justice procedure. Over de auteur(s): Antony Pemberton studied Political Science at Nijmegen University. He subsequently worked as a researcher and as a senior staff member of Dutch Victim Support.In 2007 he became a senior-researcher and project-manager at the International Victimology Institute (INTERVICT) of Tilburg University, where he has been involved in research into victims of terrorism, The EU Framework Decision on Victims of Crime, victims' needs and risk management in domestic violence. The Cross-over is his Ph D-thesis.

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Auteur(s): Lieselot Bisschop, Kees Buijnink, Sofie De Kimpe & Mirko Noordegraaf (eds.) ISBN: 9789046603314 Politieleiders zijn zowel managers van een onderneming als hoofd van een publieke organisatie die niet los kan worden gezien van de democratische context waarin de politie functioneert. Politieleiders staan tussen de organisatie en de omgeving in, op een kruispunt van belangen. Cahier 14 geeft aandacht aan politieleiderschap in het algemeen en de korpschef is het bijzonder. De resultaten van een wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar het profiel en de evaluatie van de korpschefs van de Belgische lokale politie, krijgt in dit Cahier een plaats. De bijdragen gaan over rekrutering, selectie, ontwikkeling en evaluatie van politieleiders en hogere publieke leidinggevenden. Ook wordt een toekomstvisie voor politieleiderschap geschetst. Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): Antoinette Verhage, Piet Deelman, Eddy Muylaert, Jan Terpstra & Patrick Van Parys (eds.) ISBN: 9789046603338 For the past few decades the so-called transnationalisation of the police in Europe has evolved rapidly. The resulting cooperation between national police organisations is often motivated by referring to the inevitable need of a war against the increasingly internationally operating organised crime and (especially since 2001) international terrorism. As a result, an amalgam of cooperation, information-exchange and informal relations was established between national police organisations. Europe also tried to stimulate developments of and within the police. As was often noticed before it may be difficult to get a realistic view on these important developments in the transnationalisation of the police in Europe. Moreover, it may be difficult to get detailed and reliable information about the impact of European, transnational developments on the member states’ police services. Taking these observations into account, and in view of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of Europe that will start during the second part of 2010, the editorial board of the Journal of Police Studies decided that the time was ripe to present a theme issue on ‘Policing in Europe’. This volume is therefore based on two main questions. Firstly, what are the developments of the police and police cooperation in Europe at a supranational level? And secondly, what are the different reactions of police organisations in individual European countries to the process of European transnationalisation in terms of the design of and philosophy within their police organisation? Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): Eveline De Wree, Elke Devroe, Wim Broer & Peter van der Laan (eds.) ISBN: 9789046603345 Afgelopen jaren is de tendens waarneembaar dat het politie- en justitiedomein meer aandacht krijgt voor ‘evidence based’ beleid. Programma’s en beleidsmaatregelen moeten eerst ‘bewezen werkzaam’ zijn vooraleer ze verdere financiering kennen en de aandacht voor evaluatie groeit. Enerzijds speelt de rationalisering van de schaarse middelen daarin een grote rol en anderzijds het leggen van prioriteiten in allerhande politiële en justitiële beleidsplannen. Dit Cahier geeft een inzicht in wat ‘evidence based policing’ juist inhoudt, en wat de uitdagingen, de voordelen, de kritieken en de valkuilen zijn. De voorwaarden waaraan experimenteel criminologisch onderzoek moet voldoen worden geschetst. In tweede instantie wordt, o.m. aan de hand van cases, ingegaan op het nut van ‘evidence’ voor praktijk en beleid en wordt kennis aangereikt over het vinden van een praktische ‘vertaling’ naar het werkveld. Dit Cahier bundelt zowel bijdragen uit beleid en praktijk als uit het academische milieu. De auteurs zijn afkomstig uit drie landen waarin de mate van implementatie van evidence based policing verschilt. Dit geeft de nodige schakeringen in het ‘evidence based’ debat. Dit Cahier vormt een belangrijk naslagwerk voor politie, justitie en andere veiligheidsactoren. Weten ‘wat werkt’ en ‘wat niet werkt’ is immers van groot belang voor het vormgeven van veiligheidsbeleid. Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): I. De Weerdt, Tom De Pelsmaeker, Frank Judo, Isabel Plets, Jeroen Smets, Olivier Wouters ISBN: 9789046603352 In deze uitgave wordt een overzicht gegeven van de wetgeving die in België het taalgebruik in het bedrijfsleven regelt, inclusief haar toepassing. In het eerste deel worden de gecoördineerde wetten van 18 juli 1966 behandeld, die van toepassing zijn op geheel het land, dus op Vlaanderen, de gemeenten met speciale regeling inbegrepen, Brussel-Hoofdstad en Wallonië. In het tweede deel wordt het decreet van 19 juli 1973 besproken “tot regeling van het gebruik van de talen voor de sociale betrekkingen tussen werkgevers en werknemers, alsmede van de door de wet en de verordeningen voorgeschreven akten en bescheiden van de ondernemingen”. Dit decreet is van toepassing op geheel het Nederlandse taalgebied, behalve de gemeenten met speciale regeling. Ten slotte wordt ingegaan op de specifieke regelingen voor het Franse taalgebied, uitgezonderd de gemeenten met speciale taalregeling, zoals bepaald door het decreet van 30 juni 1982. Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): Joris Casselman ISBN: 9789046603369 Wie was Etienne De Greeff en wat is de huidige betekenis van zijn werk? Dit zijn twee vragen waarop dit boek een antwoord geeft. Etienne De Greeff (1898-1961) was een Belgische psychiater, criminoloog en romanschrijver met een boeiend en bij wijlen tragisch levensverhaal. Hij was een bijzonder intelligente en minzame persoon, die geen blad voor de mond nam om zijn originele opvattingen te verwoorden. Het historisch decor bestaat uit: de twee wereldoorlogen, het interbellum, de kloosterpsychiatrie, verschijningen te Beauraing, de Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven en het Belgisch gevangeniswezen tijdens de eerste helft van de vorige eeuw. Etienne De Greeff heeft een indrukwekkend, origineel en visionair oeuvre nagelaten. Zijn mensbeeld en zijn werk als psychiater, grondlegger van de klinische criminologie en romanschrijver worden eerst gesitueerd binnen de eigen tijdscontext. Daarna volgt een kritische bespreking van de betekenis van zijn werk voor de huidige psychiatrie, criminologie en romanliteratuur. Verschillende opvattingen blijken brandend actueel te zijn. Met talrijke afbeeldingen en samenvatting - résumé - summary Over de auteur(s): Joris Casselman is psychiater, psycholoog, seksuoloog, criminoloog en emeritus hoogleraar aan de K.U.Leuven. Hij doceerde aan de faculteiten Geneeskunde en Rechtsgeleerdheid en verwierf een bijzondere deskundigheid in verband met alcohol- en andere drugproblemen en de gerechtelijke geestelijke gezondheidszorg

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Auteur(s): Gert Vermeulen, Wendy De Bondt, Yasmin Van Damme ISBN: 9789046603437 The European Council set out the 2007 specific program on ‘Criminal Justice’ as part of the General Program on Fundamental Rights and Justice. The concrete objectives of the program include the promotion of the principle of mutual recognition and mutual trust, eliminating obstacles created by disparities between member states judicial systems and improving knowledge of member states legal and judicial systems in criminal matters and the exchange and dissemination of good practice. As part of this program, the European Commission awarded a contract to the Institute of International Research on Criminal Policy to conduct the study this book comprises the results of. The initial aim of the study was to obtain up to date information on the national laws of the EU member states on the gathering and handling of evidence and to analyse that information in the light of recent developments in legislation governing cross-border transmission of evidence, in particular the 2008 European Evidence Warrant. In addition, it was the intention of the European Commission to initiate preparatory work on a legal instrument that would expand the scope of application of the European Evidence Warrant in order to further replace the existing regime of mutual legal assistance within the EU by a mechanism based on the mutual recognition principle. As a result, the study was broadened as to also assess whether or not a mutual recognition-based EU mutual legal assistance regime is desirable and feasible. Whereas the Green Paper on obtaining evidence in criminal matters (issued in 2009 by the European Commission) raises general questions on the matter, this book provides an in-depth and full-scale overview of the current situation relating to cross-border gathering, obtaining and admissibility of evidence in criminal matters between the EU member states, as well as clear-cut future legal and policy options. This book is essential reading for EU policy makers, judicial and law enforcement authorities throughout the EU and from a broader international context. It will be particularly appealing also to the research community and anyone involved in or taking an interest in criminal policy initiatives in the EU. Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): A. Mennens, W. de Wever, A. Dalamanga, A. Kalamara, G. Kazlauskaité, G. Vermeulen & W. De Bondt ISBN: 9789046602652 One of the main deficiencies in the EU area of freedom, security and justice, is the lack of cross-country comparable data on crime and criminal justice. The importance of progress in this domain, especially in the context of the identification of best practices in the fight against crime, has been identified on several occasions. The main difficulty lies in the comparability of data, or in other words the guarantee that exchanged data is understood in the same way by all actors. In March 2007, the European Commission, DG JLS, launched a call for tender for a “Study on the development of an EU level offence classification system and an assessment of its feasibility to supporting the implementation of the Action Plan to develop an EU strategy to measure crime and criminal justice” – The Crime Statistics Project (CSP). This book contains the fi nal report of that Project, conducted by Unisys Belgium and IRCP in the course of 2008-2009. In the context of the project, EULOCS – the EU level offence classification system – was created. Its aim is not to become yet another compelling system that requires Member States to further harmonise domestic criminal law or to adjust national data models, but to be a reference index that could serve the different needs in the wider area of justice and home affairs. According to its authors, the area of justice and home affairs could benefi t from using EULOCS as a bench-mark, increasing the internal coherence of EU’s criminal policy. This book is essential reading for EU policy makers, judicial and law enforcement authorities throughout the Union and from a broader international context. Undoubtedly, this book will be an asset to everyone who is involved in or taking an interest in the production of meaningful and comparable data on crime and criminal justice in Europe. Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): Association for International Arbitration (Ed.) ISBN: 9789046602676 In a world held in the grip of economic downfall, increasing scarcity of energy supplies, plummeting oil prices, rising intra-state energy transit, protectionist natural resources policies and growing environmental concerns, time and cost are not to be underestimated factors in the choice of a suiting dispute resolution method. This book covers the hot topics related to the Energy Charter Treaty not only from a theoretical point of view, but also from practical experiences in France, the United Kingdom and Belgium. Moreover, this publication is original in that it addresses the issue of soft law in investment arbitration and includes a fictional case elaborating on the influence of different interest groups in energy disputes. Over de auteur(s):

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Auteur(s): R.A.M. van Schijndel ISBN: 9789046602799 Victim-offender mediation is increasingly used around the world as a way of dealing with crime. The growing attention for victim-offender mediation and the benefits it has to offer instigated the call for principles and rules governing the practice of penal mediation. This has led to the development of international protocols that promote and facilitate the institutionalisation and use of victim-offender mediation. One of the key elements of these protocols is the principle of confidentiality, which requires the secrecy of everything that is said and done during a mediation session. This broad interpretation of this principle may, however, cause problems in practice, especially since penal mediation can take place within the context of criminal and civil law. This book reports on a research project which studied the appropriate level of confidentiality that should apply to mediation-delivered information, regarding the out-of-court setting and the judicial context. Various exceptions to the high level of confidentiality that should apply to the issues discussed in mediation are developed. Additionally, it is explained how the thus advocated scope of the principle of confidentiality should be implemented in practice. Over de auteur(s): Renske A.M. van Schijndel studied criminal and civil law at Tilburg University and graduated in 2004. In 2004, she started working for her Ph D at the Tilburg criminal law department. In 2005, she transferred to the newly established International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT), where she completed her Ph D. This book is the result of her doctoral research.