Deviance and repression in the Netherlands: historical evidence and contemporary problems

In dem Beitrag werden einige generelle Beobachtungen über Devianz und Repression in einem Land (Holland) dargestellt, in dem die bisherige Forschung eine wirkliche Synthese nicht zuläßt. Die Schlußfolgerungen am Ende werden deshalb als provisorisch betrachtet. Die Daten sind den Archivstudien des Autors und einiger anderer Wissenschaftler entnommen. Das Umfeld für die holländischen Studien wird durch die generellen Fragen, die in der Literatur über die Geschichte der Kriminalität und Repression in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern gestellt werden, gegeben. Begonnen wird mit einer kurzen Diskussion der Kriminalität. Das Hauptanliegen aber sind das Strafrecht und die Arten der Repression, insbesondere die Inhaftierung. Im letzten Teil werden einige Bemerkungen über den Beitrag historischer Studien zum Verständnis zeitgenössischer Probleme auf diesem Gebiet gemacht, die speziell auf das Drogenproblem bezogen werden. (KWübers.)'This paper presents a few general observations on deviance and repression in a country where the amount of research done so far does not permit a real synthesis. Its conclusions, therefore, must be regarded as tentative. The data have been derived from the author's archival studies and from work done by a few other scholars. General issues raised in the literature on the history of crime and repression in various European countries provide the context for the Dutch evidence. I am starting with a brief discussion of criminality, but my major concern will be with criminal justice and modes of repression, especially with imprisonment. In the last section I will make a few remarks on the contribution of historical study to the understanding of contemporary problems in the field, with special reference to the drug problem.' (author's abstract

Getting the message across: biodiversity science and policy interfaces

Lettere En WysbegeerteSosiologie & Sosiale AntropologiePlease help us populate SUNScholar with the post print version of this article. It can be e-mailed to: [email protected]

Bloembergen Marieke, De geschiedenis van de politie in Nederlands-Indië. Uit zorg en angst

This history of the police in Colonial Indonesia is presented as the first in a series of two that follows on – but is separate from – the five-volume history of the Dutch police (2007) that resulted from a project led by Cyrille Fijnaut (see the discussion dossier in Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 123, 3, 2008. The other volume of the present series, as indicated in Fijnaut’s book, will be written by Elsbeth Locher). The book under review covers a perio..

Prisoners and beggars: quantitative data on imprisonment in Holland and Hamburg, 1597-1752

Der vorliegende Beitrag arbeitet die These heraus, daß Inhaftierung in sogenannte Gefangenen-Arbeitshäuser, - ursprünglich geplant, das Problem des Bettelns und der Landstreicherei zu lösen - im Laufe des 17. und 18.Jahrhunderts ein zunehmend bedeutende Rolle im Strafvollzugswesen selbst spielte. Die Zeitgenossen betrachteten die Gefangenengemeinschaft als eine Art Familie oder Haushalt. Anhand der Analyse von Aufnahmebüchern in diese Einrichtungen kann der Autor zeigen, daß der ürsprüngliche Zweck der Unterdrückung der Bettelei und Landstreicherei nur eine marginale Rolle spielte. Die Insassen in Holland rekrutierten sich aus der gesamten kriminellen Population, während in Hamburg die meisten Insassen Prostituierte waren. (pmb)'This article discusses quantitative evidence on the inmates of prison-workhouses. It elaborates on the author's earlier work which showed that imprisonment, originally planned to solve problems of begging and vagrancy, played an increasingly important role in the penal system during the 17th and 18th centuries and that contemporaries viewed the ideal prison community as a kind of family or household. The quantitative evidence from entry books is used to answer three questions following from these observations. They refer to the imprisonment of beggars during the early years, the identity of imprisoned convicts and the economic contribution of inmates. The article arrives at the following conclusions: prison-workhouses played just a marginal role in the repression of begging and vagrancy. Convicts selected for imprisonment in Holland resembled the general criminal population, while in Hamburg most of the inmates were prostitutes. An analysis of prison terms reveals that inmates were not valued primarily for their labor power.' (author's abstract

Musin Aude, Xavier Rousseaux, Frédéric Vesentini (eds), Violence, conciliation et répression. Recherches sur l’histoire du crime de l’Antiquité au XXIe siècle

This collection is announced as the first volume in a series on «history, justice and societies» of the University of Louvain Press. Of the three editors, apart from the very brief introduction, it is only Rousseaux who is present with a contribution of his own. Although the volume’s title is given exclusively in French, some of the contributions are in Flemish or Dutch. As the title indicates, they cover a wide area within the field of crime and justice history with respect to both chronolog..

Ruth and Marinus (Rene) Spierenburg Letter

A letter from former students of Theora England, Ruth and Marinus (Rene) Spierenburg, given to her on her retirement.https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/theorareflections/1020/thumbnail.jp

Power and politics in stakeholder engagement : farm dweller (in-)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa

Abstract: In this contribution we discuss tensions inherent in multi-stakeholder approaches addressing conflicts over natural resources as well as the involvement of stakeholders in research. The article is built on knowledge generated by extensive research on the impacts of conversions of private farms to game farms in South Africa, where significant increases in farm conversions have been observed since the 1990s. The studies had a particular focus on the consequences for farm dwellers, one of the most marginalised groups in the South African countryside. The research findings challenge the dominant narrative that game farming offers a ‘win-win’ situation for nature conservation as well as rural development. Based on data from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, we extended the narrow technical and economic framing of the narrative to include the socio-political meanings of the conversions. In this article we reflect on a series of multi-stakeholder workshops that we organized, partly as a requirement of the funding agency. The aims of the workshops were to disseminate our research findings amongst the stakeholder groups and explore ways to mitigate negative impacts of the conversions. We discuss how we organized the engagement process in ways that sought to address the power differences between game farmers, the State and farm dwellers. The main challenge appeared to be that farm dwellers were not recognized as stakeholders. This ‘invisibility’ has multiple reasons; in particular the historical and current trajectories of land dispossession. It is also linked to the specific institutional and personal relations in the two provinces, resulting in different uses of the workshop spaces. By considering the complexities of stakeholder relations in the farm conversion context, we gained a deeper understanding of the politics of land and belonging in the still unequal post-apartheid rural landscape. Based on the experiences from the research as well as the workshops, we take a critical stance regarding mainstream notions of stakeholder engagement and resilience building. We argue that if we fail to consider power relations and politics explicitly in these processes, we risk neglecting important conflicts and reproducing the invisibility of marginalized stakeholders