Projects
Study on the possibilities to exchange information between administrative bodies and traditional law enforcement organisations to apply administrative measures within EU MS and at EU level. KU Leuven
Research on administrative enforcement in the environmental planning Hasselt University
Enforcement of environmental legislation: a comparison of practices in criminal and administrative tracks Ghent University
The institute for International Research on Criminal Policy (IRCP) will examine the process of criminal law enforcement of environmental law in all its stages. The intention is to further investigate the various decision moments and to identify possible difficult areas. The research focuses, among other things, on the prioritization of the penal sanctioning policy, the fine in practice, the conduct of ...
The administrative power of (cr)immigration officers: A study of discretionary decision-making in the enforcement of (cr)immigration laws Vrije Universiteit Brussel
immigration control – have attracted academic attention over the last
decade. The increasing use of criminal justice tools for controlling
immigration has a profound impact on the lives of people involved.
Empirical research on crimmigration practices has been conducted in
prisons, courts, immigration detention centres, etc., showing that
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Administrative approach to organised crime: encouraging local administrative authorities to play a major role in combating local outcomes of organised crime, complementary to criminal law approach. KU Leuven
Human rights law should meet administrative law. How the Inter-American Court of Human Rights can expand its impact in Latin America with a better understanding of administrative law KU Leuven
Latin America lives in the age of rights. After a period of military dictatorships that perpetrated massive human rights violations, international human rights law significantly impacted Latin American states’ legal systems in the last 40 years. In particular, the Inter-American Human Rights System’s bodies – the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter, “IACHR”) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the “IA ...
Art laundering: is it not time to develop a comprehensive enforcement model? The need for tailored criminalization, compliance and enforcement of art laundering activities KU Leuven
The continued effect of criminal (procedural) rules in the administrative sanctioning of criminal offences KU Leuven
In the European member states there is an ongoing tendency to decriminalize criminal offences. In Belgium this decriminalization has repeatedly adopted a soft form. Soft decriminalization means that the offence remains criminally punishable but the legislator provides for the possibility to deal with the offence administratively as an alternative to criminal prosecution. This soft decriminalization therefore results in in a hybrid category of ...