Projects
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 ...
Fighting Crime and Corruption. The Impact of Police Forces and Army on Village Life in Graeco-Roman Egypt. KU Leuven
Neighborhoods and welfare of people. The interaction between social cohesion and individual social capital to explain personal wellbeing. Ghent University
The central aim of the present research is to explore further the impact of neighbourhood organizational (e.g. collective efficacy and neighbourhood social support) and disorganizational processes (e.g. social and physical disorder) on well-being, in addition to the influence of individual aspects of social capital.
Organ trafficking and trafficking in persons for the removal of organs: A descriptive and critical analysis of international legal frameworks and their implementation. University of Antwerp
Criminal seizure : digiproof and (multi)functional ? KU Leuven
The main topic of this PhD research is criminal seizure. The legislation on criminal seizure in Belgian criminal procedure is being questioned because of the different functions that legislation and case law attribute to this measure and the ongoing digitization of society. This research, therefore, aims to establish a new, consistent framework for criminal seizure of goods and data. This framework is based on three normative pillars: it has ...
A swelling culture of control: the Belgian case of governing incivilities Ghent University
The organizing patterns in contemporary crime control and their social and cultural underpinnings, are an important topic in modern criminology. The post-modern society and her characteristics was analysed by many Anglo-saxon authors. David Garland is considered the leading scholar in this matter with his theory of the "culture of control" and his analysis of criminal justice & crime control in Britain and Amerika. His theory played a ...
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 ...
HEAT KU Leuven
Project summary
The HEAT project develops advanced cryptographic technologies to process sensitive information in encrypted form, without needing to compromise on the privacy and security of the citizens and organizations that provide the input data.
The core technology is based on homomorphic cryptography, which allows to perform computations on encrypted information without decrypting it. The main goal of HEAT is to produce a ...