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Het leven na een terroristisch misdrijf. Recidive en re-integratie van extremistische ex-gedetineerden
Full text linkStrengths and weaknesses of using register data to study extremism and terrorism
No full textIn recent years, the study of terrorism and violent extremism has increasingly benefited from the use of register data such as population data and judicial data. The use of this type of data brings with it many advantages, such as the ability to study complete populations, to combine different sources of data, and, often, it enables researchers to take on a longitudinal and comparative approach. However, the use of register data also brings with it some significant challenges, in terms of acquiring the data (practical challenges) and in terms of biases in the data (content/ethical challenges). In this paper we discuss the usage of register data in terrorism research, with a focus on the Dutch and Swedish context. Whereas both countries are to some extent similar in that they both have a rich data-infrastructure, differences also exist regarding the type of data, agencies responsible for collecting and distributing the data, and ethical approaches. In the chapter, we will go into the strengths and weaknesses of using register data in research on terrorism and violent extremism. Moreover, we will elaborate on how the use of register data can be improved, what type of research questions can and cannot be answered based on register data, and on potential opportunities of integrating register data into mixed-methods designs.</p
The Strengths and Struggles of Different Methods of Research on Radicalization, Extremism, and Terrorism
Full text linkIn this editorial article, we introduce readers to a special issue of Studies in Conflict & Terrorism on the strengths and limitations associated with various data collection methods that are used in research on radicalization, extremism and terrorism. To date, overviews and special issues of methods in this field have mainly focused on technical and methodological aspects of data collection and analysis, while the more practical and personal aspects received less attention. With this special issue, we aim to provide insights into the daily reality of conducting empirical research in this field. In addition to summarizing the seven articles in this special issue, we paint an overall picture of the current state of research methodologies in this field.</p
From Crime to Terrorism: Life-Circumstances and Criminal Careers of Terrorist Suspects
Full text linkIt is widely acknowledged that factors such as previous offending and unemployment increase the risk of offending, but it remains unclear to what extent this also holds true for terrorist suspects. Using register-data on individuals suspected of a terrorist offense in the Netherlands, the present study takes on a life-course criminological approach to study the background and criminal career of terrorist suspects. Moreover, we compare their background to that of general criminal suspects and members of the general population. Our findings support the idea of a “new” crime-terror nexus at the individual level and show similarities between terrorist suspects and regular suspects
The families of Dutch terrorist suspects: Risk and protective factors among parents and siblings
Full text linkNewsmedia have regularly reported about acts of terrorism that involved members of the same family, but also about instances where one sibling becomes a terrorist, whereas the other becomes a successful, law-abiding citizen. The question is, then, to what extent family circumstances and individual risk factors impact on pathways towards these shared or divergent outcomes. To date, studies on the family characteristics of terrorist suspects have been hampered by a lack of empirical data, small sample sizes and non-representative samples. Using register data on individuals suspected of a terrorist offense in the Netherlands and their family members, the present study examines the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the families, as well as criminal, employment and education careers of individual family members (parents and brothers/sisters). We compare these characteristics with those of two control groups: suspects of non-terrorist offenses and a matched sample from the population. We also compared the terrorist suspects with matched siblings who were not suspected of a terrorist offence. We will end with a discussion of both risk and protective factors that are present within these families and that can put members of the same family on different pathways. </p
Resocialisation and Reintegration in the Netherlands: Political Narrative Versus Reality
Full text linkThis contribution focuses on a discrepancy between the political narrative in which Dutch criminal justice policy pays increasing attention to the reintegration of ex-prisoners and the reality in which the possibilities for reintegration in law and policy are becoming increasingly limited. This discrepancy is illustrated by an outline of the recent changes in Dutch penal policy with regard to the enforcement of prison sentences in which a great deal of emphasis is placed on the reintegration of ex-prisoners on the basis of six basic conditions for reintegration, namely having accommodation, income from work or benefits, insight into debts, being in possession of a valid identity document, determining care needs and continuity of care and maintaining and strengthening a positive social network. Furthermore, we will discuss the recent changes in the system of promotion and demotion, sentence planning and conditional release procedure for prisoners, as a result of which the possibilities for resocialisation have decreased
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Aard en omvang van Cybercrime
Full text linkVijf jaar geleden wijdden Huisman, Weerman en De Keijser deze rubriek aan het thema ‘Criminaliteit in cyberspace’. Zij constateerden dat de criminologische aandacht voor cybercrime eerder was achtergebleven, maar in 2014 goed op stoom begon te komen. De afgelopen vijf jaar is de aandacht voor cybercrime verder gegroeid. In deze rubriek zullen we ingaan op de huidige stand van zaken op het gebied van criminologisch onderzoek naar cybercrime. We zullen daarbij ingaan op wat er op dit moment bekend is over de aard en omvang van cybercrime in Nederland, daders van cybercrime en de aanpak van cybercrime
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