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Can European human rights instruments limit the power of the state to punish? A tale of two Europes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The power to punish is traditionally seen as an essential prerogative of the national state. Over the last three decades, judicial and standard setting bodies of the Council of Europe (CoE) have sought increasingly, at a regional level, to monitor and control the power of European States to punish. In parallel, the European Union (EU) has become an increasingly important penal actor, fostering a common approach to transnational forms of ...
Brief aan de minister van Justitie Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The evolution of detaining accompanied migrant minors without a residence permit in Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Until 2009, accompanied migrant minors without a residence permit were regularly detained in closed immigration detention centres in Belgium in view of forced return. However, following several convictions by the European Court of Human Rights, Belgium started to transfer families whose forced return is pending to open return units. At first, high compliance rates were observed: only 20% of the families ‘escaped’ from their unit. Yet as ...
European and United Nations monitoring of penal and prison policies as a source of an inverted panopticon? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
De vervroegde invrijheidstelling van buitenlandse gedetineerden zonder verblijfsrecht Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Gedetineerden zonder verblijfsrecht: Repatriëren tegen (w)elke prijs? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Het toenemende aantal gedetineerden zonder verblijfsrecht zorgde ervoor dat het samenspel tussen justitie en de Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken na de eeuwwisseling aan belang won. Dit samenspel binnen de gevangenismuren was echter geenszins een evidentie. In het bijzonder de uitvoering van de administratieve detentie ter beschikking van de Dienst Vreemdelingenzaken met het oog op een repatriëring vanuit de gevangenis stond onder druk omwille van de ...
Détenus sans droit de séjour. Réinsérer ou rapatrier à tout prix? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Le nombre croissant de détenus sans droit de séjour a accru l’impor¬tance de la collaboration entre la Justice et l’Office des étrangers. Cette collaboration à l’intérieur des murs de la prison n’était cepen¬dant pas une évidence. L’exécution de la détention administrative à la disposition de l’Office des étrangers en vue d’un rapatriement au départ de la prison a, en particulier, créé des tensions en raison de la surpopulation carcérale ...
‘One cannot legislate kindness’: Ambiguities in European legal instruments on non-custodial sanctions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Non-custodial sanctions, particularly those that are implemented in the community, have different historical roots in common- and civil-law jurisdictions. Nevertheless, various European instruments seek to shape the imposition and implementation of such sanctions uniformly across the continent. These instruments reflect an apparent consensus about penal values, culminating in 1992 with the adoption of the European Rules on Community Sanctions ...
Mixed system: Belgium. Who is in charge? Conditional release in Belgium as a complex bifurcation practice Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Decisions to release prisoners are a highly sensitive and often debated issue in Belgium. The early release system has undergone some fundamental changes over the last two decades. Since February 2007, independent multidisciplinary sentence implementation courts decide on the detention trajectory of offenders sentenced to more than three years of imprisonment. However, the minister of Justice still has the authority to decide on most other ...