Projects
Crime, Criminology and Criminal Policy Ghent University
The objective of the Consortium Crime, Criminology and Criminal Policy is to strengthen the quality of UGent scientific research on the domain of deviance and its (policy) response and to increase the societal impact of this research through stimulating and supporting interdisciplinary cross-departmental and cross-faculty cooperation. A strong focus lies on acquiring research funding for major (international and inter-disciplinary) research ...
Victims on the Job: A Criminal Event Perspective on the Dynamics Underlying Physical Violence Against Police Officers Ghent University
In this study, I use a Criminal Event Perspective to establish the underlying dynamics of physical violence against police officers. To explain this phenomenon, I integrate the interplay between individual characteristics, contextual factors, and their combined impact, with a network approach to include the extent to which physical violence is transmitted within professional social networks.
Balancing policy space versus policy constraints? A critial legal analysis of WTO disciplines on subsidies and countervailing measures. KU Leuven
Current title: Political emancipation through language and cultural education. Critical pedagogical research into the rhetoric of cultural literacy mediated by cultural institutions and cultural policy at the Flemish, Belgian and European level. Ghent University
This research conducts 3 integrated research tracks to investigate cultural literacy projects - issued at the Flemish, Belgian and European policy level: (1) conceptual study into cultural literacy; (2) a crosssectional analysis of the rhetoric of political emancipation in cultural policies; (3) field research inquiring
how cultural institutions (theatres, libraries, museums, …) translate emancipatory cultural knowledge, defined at ...
Professional secrecy and the criminal justice chain. The use of information available to professional secrecy holders during the criminal adjudication and enforcement phase KU Leuven
Through the criminal justice chain, information is gathered and used in order to optimally accomplish the goals of (procedural) criminal law. Mainly information about committed criminal offenses as well as information about the offender as a person and his/her social context plays a key role during the criminal process. This information is, for instance, necessary as part of the search for the truth or in order to realize an adapted ...
Defence lawyers in the defence. Lawyers' culpable involvement in crime: criminality, criminal investigations and safeguards against abuse KU Leuven
They already popped up in just about every mafia fiction: the lawyers who are so close to the members of criminal organisations that the question arises whether they themselves do not commit criminal acts. During the past few years, however, Belgian and Dutch reality also saw several high-profile criminal proceedings against lawyers who allegedly abused their professional position at the behest or at least in the interest of criminal ...
Criminal law under normative review: from the ultima ratio principle to its global dimension Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Firstly, identify relatively new normative questions about the ultima ratio principle and its intersection with the increasing enforcement of fundamental rights through criminal law (also known as the ‘positive obligation doctrine), the globalization process, and ...
(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 ...