2013
DOI: 10.1177/1477370812464467
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Crime, criminal justice and criminology in Belgium

Abstract: For criminologists, Belgium is at once an interesting and a very complex country. Belgium is one of the first European countries where criminology became institutionalized in the universities. As for criminal justice, in many ways Belgium can be situated in the European middle. One feature of Belgium is its institutional complexity, with a push towards devolving decision-making powers from the federal level to its entities. This recently led to the longest period of post-election government negotiations in a d… Show more

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“…Dupont adviced to substantially revise existing practices in order to restrain the use of strip searches (Dupont, 1998: 224). After several years of parliamentary debate -and some wilful manoeuvres aimed at delaying the legislative process -the Prison Act of 12 January 2005 was eventually adopted (for a discussion, see Mary, 2006Mary, , 2013Snacken, 2007;Maes, 2009Maes, , 2012Daems, Maes & Robert, 2013). Article 108 of the Prison Act introduced a clear distinction between a search of an inmate's clothes on the one hand, and a search of the body, that is, a strip search, on the other.…”
Section: Strip Searches In Belgium: a Brief Historymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dupont adviced to substantially revise existing practices in order to restrain the use of strip searches (Dupont, 1998: 224). After several years of parliamentary debate -and some wilful manoeuvres aimed at delaying the legislative process -the Prison Act of 12 January 2005 was eventually adopted (for a discussion, see Mary, 2006Mary, , 2013Snacken, 2007;Maes, 2009Maes, , 2012Daems, Maes & Robert, 2013). Article 108 of the Prison Act introduced a clear distinction between a search of an inmate's clothes on the one hand, and a search of the body, that is, a strip search, on the other.…”
Section: Strip Searches In Belgium: a Brief Historymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 1995, Belgium had 10.13 million inhabitants. Although the birthplace of Adolphe Quételet, one of the renowned founders of quantitative attention for criminal phenomena, there is a notable lack of national statistics for the year 1995, especially with regard to crime (e.g., Daems et al, 2013). Based on national police data from 2000, a total of 1,002,088 offenses were counted, including 11,011 sex offenses (Federal Police Belgium, 2018).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…At the same time, the reality of reforms (mirroring the real intensity of change) was also restricted by available local resources that could be practically invested in terms of the different processes. As these resources were limited, we can estimate that, overall, the changes within the judiciary took place in a disorganized manner, without any clear outline and without real overall structural change (Fijnaut 2001;Daems et al 2013).…”
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confidence: 99%