Projects
Doing restorative justice in intercultural contexts: An alternative discourse of justice and security KU Leuven
The dissertation explores critically the potential and the limits of the restorative justice discourse in addressing conflicts in intercultural contexts in Europe, as an alternative discourse on both justice and security. The exploration revolves around two main questions: 1. How can we conceptualise the application of restorative justice at a range of community-based and social conflicts?; 2. How can ...
Effects on pupils of prevention and security policies in schools. KU Leuven
In a context where schools adopt more and more preventive and security policy and measures, this research project aims at finding out which effects these policies produce on pupils. At first, the prevention and security policy of a selection of schools were analyzed and categorized according to prevention and security typologies. In the same schools a survey took place to assess the potential effectiveness of the policies adapted by the ...
The social state of Flanders 2009: general contribution 'Housing in Flanders'. KU Leuven
New spaces of capital: The Real Estate/Financial Complex in Russia and Poland KU Leuven
English Summary
The state-finance-real estate ‘triangle’ found its most spectacular expression in
2007/8 when the collapse of the U.S. mortgage market caused an economic crisis
of global scale. Yet, even though financial news is full of implicit references to the
interaction between the three dimensions, it rarely explicitly addresses it as issue in
its own right. For this reason, Aalbers (2013b:1) has proposed the ...
Chaff-Based Profile Obfuscation KU Leuven
Driven by the economics of surveillance capitalism, online service providers profile users to infer information about them, feeding automated decision-making
processes such as targeted advertising or user experimentation that prompt grave concerns about people’s privacy, autonomy and democratic sovereignty,
among other rights. Market forces and lack of state intervention have forestalled the emergence of privacy-preserving ...
Middleware for Mobile Crowd Sensing Applications KU Leuven
Mobile crowd sensing applications offer an innovative approach to realise people-centric and environmental-centric sensing applications in scenarios such as smart buildings, traffic and road condition monitoring, or e-healthcare. These applications involve large numbers of participants using heterogeneous mobile devices. These devices differ in terms of hardware (e.g. on-board sensors available), software (e.g. operating system), and external ...
A Workable Picture of Reality - Mentalization, Unreliability and Psychiatry in the Fiction of Patrick McGrath KU Leuven
Patrick McGrath (1950) was born and raised in England. As a child, he lived on the grounds of Broadmoor Hospital, an institution for the criminally insane, as the son of the residing Medical Superintendent. He now lives mainly in New York.
Most literary criticism hails McGrath as a Gothic – or even a New Gothic – writer and enumerates a whole list of intertextual links to Gothic texts. McGrath’s own attitude towards that stamp has ...
Crime & Society: New Challenges Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Maxing out in prison. A study of pre-release long-term prisoners. KU Leuven
This dissertation provides a first provisional answer to the following central research question:
Why do some long-term prisoners max out from prison, rather than obtain a modality of early release?
The dissertation includes a brief introduction, four substantive chapters and a discussion and conclusion.
The first chapter provides a sketch of the available empirical evidence about maxing out from ...