Crime and Justice in the Netherlands

by Tonry, Michael H.

• ISBN13: 9780226808741
• ISBN10: 0226808742
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

This volume of Crime and Justice presents the first English-language survey of the Dutch criminal justice system. The Netherland's reputation for tolerance, harm-reduction approach to drug use, pragmatic policies toward prostitution, low imprisonment rates, and nonpolitical policy approach have long exemplified-to outsiders, at least-rational and humane approaches to crime and criminals. Its criminological research community has long been among the most active, influential, and visible in Europe. Crime and Justice in the Netherlands examines crime and punishment patterns and trends, crime control policies, and research traditions in areas where Dutch research is especially strong, such as immigration, ethnicity and crime, organized crime, organizational crime, delinquency, and sex offending.

Author Biography

Michael Tonry is director of the Institute on Crime and Public Policy, Sonosky Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, and senior researcher, at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Leiden. Catrien Bijleveld is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Leiden, and professor of research methods in Criminology at the Free University, Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in the Netherlands	p. 1
The Road to Dystopia? Changes in the Penal Climate of the Netherlands	p. 31
Dutch Tolerance: On Drugs, Prostitution, and Euthanasia	p. 73
The Dutch Criminological Enterprise	p. 115
Organized Crime, Transit Crime, and Racketeering	p. 163
Organizational Crime in the Netherlands	p. 217
Juvenile Offending	p. 261
Sex Offenders and Sex Offending	p. 319
The Fragmentation of Migration and Crime in the Netherlands	p. 389
Urbanization and Urban Crime: Dutch Geographical and Environmental Research	p. 453
Serious and Violent Juvenile Delinquency: An Update	p. 503
Index	p. 593
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