Title Participants Abstract "Proefdraaien in de gevangenis van Haren. Visies en ervaringen van deelnemers" "Kristel Beyens, Lars Breuls, Marlies Heirstrate, An-Sofie Vanhouche" "In September 2022, a mock detention was organized in the then soon to be opened prison in Haren to test the operation of the prison and to offer the opportunity to external persons to have a detention experience. About 50 participants, mostly judicial actors, took part in this so-called immersion. While existing scholarship focuses on the experiences during short term prison visits, research on participants’ experiences of mock detentions is non-existent. This study aims to fill this knowledge gap by researching the participants’ views on detention, their detention experiences and the impact of the detention on their psychological and physical well-being. The results show that the participants seem to realize that a mock incarceration is different from a real detention experience. However, several of their experiences are similar to prison experiences that are reported by real prisoners in prison research. Our findings illustrate i.a. the importance of the treatment and communication by staff as well as of the material detention circumstances on detention experiences. We conclude with some reflections on the usefulness of mock detentions to increase our knowledge of the challenges of prison life." "The prison of Haren: opportunity of missed chance?" "Kristel Beyens" "Op 30 september 2022 werd de gevangenis van Haren ingehuldigd door een trotse minister van Justitie.d Dit artikel blikt terug op de lange totstandkoming van Haren als grootschalig gevangeniscomplex, op de politieke keuzes en de reacties uit de samenleving en de academische wereld. Is deze nieuwe gevangenis wel zo ‘nieuw’ als ze wordt voorgesteld? En volstaat een nieuw gebouw om de lovenswaardige intenties te realiseren?" "FixMyStreet! A criminological theoretical perspective on the handling of minor offenses through mobile city applications" "Lior Volinz, Iris Steenhout, Kristel Beyens, Lucas Melgaço" "De penitentiair beambte van de toekomst. Het belang van dynamische veiligheid" "Kristel Beyens, Lars Breuls, Diete Humblet, Jana Robberechts, Sonja Snacken, An-Sofie Vanhouche" "‘Jij hoort hier niet thuis!’: Uitzetting verdubbelt de straf voor een strafbaar feit" "Lars Breuls, Kristel Beyens" "You don’t belong here!’: Expulsion doubles the punishment for one criminal offence" "Lars Breuls, Kristel Beyens" "Sleuteldrager of sleutelfiguur?" "Jana Robberechts, Kristel Beyens" "While research has increasingly focused on the role of digitalisation in prisoners’ detention experiences, the impact of the digitalisation of the prison regime on the discretionary power of prison officers has been understudied. By using an ethnographic approach in one digital Belgian prison, qualitative interview data are used to investigate the prison officer’s coping strategies in response to the digitalisation of prison life. It is found that the gatekeeping role of prison officer’s has been partly stripped away but also that the impact of digitalisation on the prison officer’s discretionary power depends on how digital technologies are implemented. Moreover, the study reveals that not all official goals regarding the digitalisation are met and highlights the need of supporting prison officers when implementing new technologies in prison." "Where two ‘exceptional’ prison cultures meet: Negotiating order in a transnational prison" "Alison Liebling, Berit Johnsen, Tore Rokkan, Kristel Beyens, Miranda Boone, An-Sofie Vanhouche" "Can a prison in the Netherlands, that is neither ‘Dutch’ nor ‘Norwegian’, be ‘legitimate?’ What are the moral challenges? Our study of the controversial Norgerhaven project—a Norwegian prison located in the Netherlands—found that this ‘experiment’ generated one of the most reflexive, ‘deliberative’ prisons we have encountered. Officials involved in the decision assumed that the two jurisdictions were alike in their values. Few were prepared for the differences that arose. This hybrid prison made punishment, the use of authority, and the meanings of fairness, professionalism and discipline unusually explicit as staff negotiated their practices, creating a shift from ‘practical’ to ‘discursive’ consciousness and exposing many of the complexities of liberal penal power." "Comparing electronic monitoring regimes: length, breadth, depth, weight equals tightness" "Anthea Hucklesby, Kristel Beyens, Miranda Boone" "This paper compares the use of electronic monitoring (EM) in three European jurisdictions – Belgium, England and the Netherlands. It suggests that rates of use, the accepted method of comparison in relation to imprisonment and a proxy measure of ‘punitiveness’, provide a misleading picture when applied to EM. This paper transforms the concept of ‘tightness’ (Crewe, 2011) from a dimension of weight to encompass the overlapping elements of length, breadth, depth and weight, to provide a framework for analysing how EM regimes are designed to disrupt the lives of monitored individuals. EM regimes are diverse and ‘tightness’ varied as much, if not more, within as between jurisdictions. Comparisons of ‘tightness’ also inverted the scale of ‘punitiveness’ produced using rates of use." "Inleiding: een liber amicorum/arum voor een 'redelijk eigenzinnige' humaniste" "Kristel Beyens, Diete Humblet, Hilde Tubex, An-Sofie Vanhouche, Kristof Verfaillie"