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Life Imprisonment in Belgium: Current Human Rights Challenges Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Different categories of prisoners can end up spending their whole lives in prison in Belgium: life sentenced prisoners; offenders subjected to indeterminate measures for the protection of society (mentally ill offenders) or to preventive detention measures; and elderly prisoners who may die in prison. This chapter first
provides a description and a quantitative overview of their presence in Belgian
prisons and how this situation ...
provides a description and a quantitative overview of their presence in Belgian
prisons and how this situation ...
‘One cannot legislate kindness’: Ambiguities in European legal instruments on non-custodial sanctions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Non-custodial sanctions, particularly those that are implemented in the community, have different historical roots in common- and civil-law jurisdictions. Nevertheless, various European instruments seek to shape the imposition and implementation of such sanctions uniformly across the continent. These instruments reflect an apparent consensus about penal values, culminating in 1992 with the adoption of the European Rules on Community Sanctions ...
Punishment, legitimate policies and values: Penal moderation, dignity and human rights Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Twenty years ago, we described how changing prison populations in western countries result from a complex interaction between criminality, external (demography, economy), internal (criminal justice policies) and intermediate factors (public opinion, politics and media). While the outcome of these interactions is contingent, we advocated a reductionist penal policy in order to curb penal inflation. Subsequent macro-sociological analyses and ...
Mixed system: Belgium. Who is in charge? Conditional release in Belgium as a complex bifurcation practice Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Decisions to release prisoners are a highly sensitive and often debated issue in Belgium. The early release system has undergone some fundamental changes over the last two decades. Since February 2007, independent multidisciplinary sentence implementation courts decide on the detention trajectory of offenders sentenced to more than three years of imprisonment. However, the minister of Justice still has the authority to decide on most other ...
Weergave van een tweedaagse training over onderbelichte kwesties in kwalitatief onderzoek. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Weergave van een tweedaagse training over onderbelichte kwesties in kwalitatief onderzoek. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Rechtspraak in kort bestek van het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Rechtspraak in kort bestek van het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Rechtspraak in kort bestek van het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In dit rechtspraakoverzicht worden enkele strafrech- telijk relevante uitspraken van het Europese Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens besproken, en dit voor de periode mei en juni 2014.