Projects
Public and Police Officers' Crime Seriousness Perceptions and Criminal Policy Preferences KU Leuven
In recent years, there has been limited research on crime seriousness perceptions and criminal policy preferences, although these are very interesting sources of information for criminal policy-makers.
Crime seriousness is an essential criterion for decisions concerning (de)criminalization, prioritization in crime control and prevention, and sentencing. However, so far no criteria or methodologies have been developed to assess crime ...
Public perseptions of crime seriousness: to what extent are they driven by media consumption? KU Leuven
(How) Can International Criminal Law Safeguard Fundamental Human Rights? The Denial of the Rights to Fair Proceeding as International Crimes KU Leuven
Dystopian forms of justice are not a fantasy. States and non-state armed groups frequently employ unfair trials as a ‘weapon’ of war. In wartime, individuals charged for having committed a crime are therefore deprived of fundamental judicial guarantees or denied a trial altogether. Such infringements often culminate in indefinite detention and executions. For example, eastern Ukraine and Crimea have recorded serious violations of the right to ...
Shades of grey: Analyzing shifts across the white, grey, black and criminal segments of the pharmaceutical market and the challenges of their control KU Leuven
The proposed project is intended I) to identify the market segments of the Belgian and Indian pharmaceutical market on the basis of their legal status (thus from fully legal to fully criminal) and the legal nature of the offence or violation at hand (e.g., criminal law offence or violation under intellectual protection (IP) law, other civil or administrative law); II) to analyze actors’ and products’ shifts across these segments; and III) to ...
Immeasurable suffering? Mental harm as an element of international offences KU Leuven
When we think of international offences such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, events that often come to mind are large-scale killings or acts of torture causing serious physical harm. However, it has become clear throughout history that international offences are also committed through acts causing serious mental harm. The effects of mental harm are often longer-lasting than those of physical harm and can even be ...
Cross-border cooperation in the fight against serious and organized fiscal fraud. A comparative study of the state of affairs in Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland KU Leuven
For two decades, there has been a growing attention for the fight against (cross-border) financial economic crime in general and the suppression of serious c.q. organized tax fraud in particular, and this both at national, European and international level. Given the fact that this type of fraud causes an enormous damage to the European Union and its member states, it is however striking that the(empirically) scientific research into the ...
Assessing, addressing and repairing the harms of state crime: bearers' and stakeholders' perceptions and processes in Kosovo KU Leuven
In the 1990s, serious and persistent state crime occurred in several states of the former Yugoslavia, including Kosovo. With the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the European policy community for the first time established ‘justice seeking’ bodies for dealing with state crimes on its own soil. Much less has been done so far to assess and restore the harms generated by state crime. It is this gap that ...
The era of pre-crime: How mass data surveillance and predictive policing intersect and interfere with privacy, data protection and due process rights in the EU KU Leuven
The thesis focuses on frameworks of mass data surveillance for predictive policing purposes and questions their lawfulness under EU primary law. Mass data surveillance refers to the general and untargeted processing of various types of personal data initially collected by the private sector, for safeguarding national and public security and combatting serious crime and terrorism. In the EU, such mass data surveillance frameworks engage at ...
ALUNA : Child-protection based strategies to fight against sexual abuse and exploitation crimes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
no borders. The continuous increase in child sexual abuse and exploitation, not least due to the Covid#19 pandemic, highlight the
importance of harmonised national legislation and international cooperation to prevent these offenses, protect the victims and prosecute
the perpetrators. The fight ...