Het effect van intensief surveilleren vlak bij en vlak na een eerdere inbraak

Can a fruitful police surveillance scheme be based on supposedly increased risk immediately after and around a previous burglary (‘near repeat phenomenon’)? An experiment in Amstelveen has been set up and analysed for this purpose. Some neighbourhoods got a ‘near repeat surveillance’ scheme, and the occurrence of burglary in those areas has been compared with control neighbourhoods elsewhere in town. We observed a change in the near repeat pattern in the experimental area, but no net effect on burglary rates, presumably because of large between-neighbourhood variance in incidence. Dit artikel beschrijft een experimenteel onderzoek in Amstelveen, waarbij in verschillende buurten de politie extra surveilleert in de buurt van en kort na een eerdere inbraak, dit vanwege een mogelijk verhoogd risico dan en daar (‘besmettelijkheid’). Het vóórkomen van inbraken wordt vergeleken met wat er in controlebuurten gebeurt. Ofschoon het besmettelijkheidspatroon in de experimentele buurten wel verandert door de extra surveillance, konden we geen netto positief effect van de surveillance aantonen, wellicht vooral omdat de tussen-buurtvariatie erg groot is, gegeven de betrekkelijk kleine aantallen inbraken in de diverse buurten

Incarcerated Fathers and Their Children in The Netherlands:Demographic and Detention Factors That Affect the Father–Child Relationship: A Secondary Analysis

Internationally, incarcerated fathers and their children are often administratively invisible. The protective father–child relationship (FCR) is understudied. A secondary analysis was conducted to identify the number of all Dutch incarcerated legal fathers and their children; and several demographics and detention factors (e.g., prison length, offense type) were uncovered. Over 34% of incarcerated men were legal fathers, with approximately 12,000 children, mostly minors (64%), in each yearly count. Fathers differed from nonfathers by age, ethnic background, type of offense, and prison length. Follow-up research is needed to understand the interrelatedness of different demographics and detention factors and their impact on the FCR