Gudrun Vande Walle

Ghent University | UGhent · Department of Economics

Dit onderzoek is in opdracht van Politie & Wetenschap uitgevoerd door een team van onderzoekers uit Nederland en België. Het onderzoek in de twee Nederlandse wijken werd verricht door medewerkers van het Criminologisch Instituut van de Radboud Universiteit te Nijmegen. Het Belgisch deel van het onderzoek werd uitgevoerd door de onderzoeksgroep ‘Gov...

Environmental crime and the victimisation it causes is a topic that has been neglected in both victimology and criminology for a long time. In the last decades, criminology has had an increasing focus on environmental crime (White, 2009). This fits within a broader critical development, which looks beyond crime towards legally ambiguous behaviours...

This article discusses the topic of transnational environmental crime and its governance. After illustrating the social relevance of and scientific attention for transnational environmental crime this article turns to a discussion of the implications for the governance paradigm. This raises a number of topics which are subject of analysis in the Ph...

After no less than five entirely double blind peer reviewed volumes in the GofS Research Paper Series have been released in 2009, 2010 and 2011 the editorial board is proud to issue again a set of two more volumes comprising original and new research papers that have been proofed by international peers Volume 6, providing new empirical data, theor...

Ponsaers, P. , Vande Walle, G., De Pauw, E. (2011). “De bijzondere inspectiediensten”, Handboek Politiediensten – Organisatie politiewezen – Dragers van de politiefunctie , Hoofdstuk V, Afl. 97, 89, april, 1-56.

Purpose – The informal economy is more than the inverse of the formalised economy, but is a dynamic environment. It is less limited by legal rules, state control, bureaucracy or tax regulation. On the other hand the informal market is less visible than the regular economy. The purpose of this paper is to find out how informal markets are currently...

This paper is divided into two parts. The first discusses the one-sided discourse that exists in criminology and at the level of public policy, about the phenomenon of corruption. In these discourses, the perpetrators of corruption are referred to as ‘them’: Criminal organisations and corrupt civil servants in developing countries. Using two exampl...

Informal economy functions without any formal social control for lack of a supervisory authority. Within a regulated locality the same activities would have an illegal character, but in that deviating situation those informal activities can thrive because the authorities do not intervene. Globalization of our western mixed market economy implies th...

In criminological discourse a distinction is made between organised crime and white-collar crime, though global economic change no longer justifies such distinction. Many criminologists, who usually base their reasoning on external political, social or economic mechanisms, rarely explain phenomena by questioning the origin of their own knowledge. T...