At least 1,900 Dutch detainees are detained abroad yearly. They are housed in foreign detention because they are accused of having committed a criminal offence in a country that is not their country of residence. This study used data regarding Dutch detainees who were supervised by the International Office of the Dutch Probation Service to examine detainees’ background characteristics and their offending behaviour after returning to the Netherlands. The findings show that 23% of the Dutch detainees reoffended within 2 years of release from foreign detention. Furthermore, several background characteristics, such as their age at release from foreign detention, are related to reoffending behaviour.

Bereidheid om samen te werken met actoren in de strafrechtketen: de invloed van procedurele rechtvaardigheid in Nederland Matthias van HallCriminologisch onderzoek benadrukt het belang van procedurele rechtvaardigheid van autoriteiten tijdens hun ontmoetingen met burgers. Theorie en eerder onderzoek veronderstellen dat de procedureel rechtvaardige bejegening door de politie, al dan niet via legitimiteit, van invloed is op de bereidheid van burgers om samen te werken met actoren in de strafrechtketen. Dit artikel toetst de hypothesen van de procedurele rechtvaardigheidstheorie met Nederlandse gegevens van de European Social Survey (N=1.616). De resultaten tonen een verband tussen de procedureel rechtvaardige bejegening van burgers door de politie en de bereidheid tot samenwerking met strafrechtactoren. Dit verband wordt echter niet verklaard door legitimiteitsovertuigingen over de politie.

Several scholars have suggested that perceptions of procedural justice matter less for legitimacy beliefs and compliant behavior among serious offenders, but it remains unknown to what extent this also holds true for male detainees interacting with multiple criminal justice authorities. Using longitudinal data from the Prison Project on adult detainees entering Dutch pre-trial detention centers, the current study examines whether effects of procedural justice—arising from encounters with police officers, prison staff, and judges—on felt obligation to obey and recidivism operate in a different manner for first-time detainees and recurrent detainees. Our findings support the idea that procedural justice exerts differential effects on beneficial outcomes depending on detainees’ prior detention experience.

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Procedural justice literature proposes that when individuals perceive their treatment by criminal justice authorities as more procedurally just, they will be more likely to view those authorities as legitimate and, in turn, show more compliant behavior. Knowledge on potential determinants of procedural justice is, therefore, crucial. Research suggests that prior perceptions of procedural justice may influence later judgements of procedural justice. The current study used data from the Prison Project, including information on detainees’ perceptions of their treatment by the police, the judge, the prison staff, the probation officer, and the lawyer. The findings show that detainees perceive the treatment by the lawyer as most procedurally just, while they evaluate the treatment by the police as least procedurally just. Further, how detainees experience the procedurally just treatment by the police is associated with how they feel treated by other authorities at a later stage in the criminal justice system.