Martine Blom

• Drs
• Researcher at Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Documentatiecentrum

By comparing criminal careers of individuals who have sexually offended to those who have not sexually offended, the current study examines whether their criminal career parameters and trajectories differ. National conviction records (entire criminal history and about 18 years of follow-up after index offence) from Belgium and the Netherlands are u...

This article provides an evaluation of the long-term effectiveness of the Alcohol Ignition Interlock Programme (AIIP) on recidivism. A retrospective cohort design was used to compare the known reoffending behaviour of 1676 AIIP participants with that of 907 persons in a control group, consisting of offenders who committed an AIIP-worthy driving-und...

Sexual offenses are often part of a larger criminal career also encompassing nonsexual crimes. However, most sexual offending typologies focus on an individual’s most recent sexual offense. We compare data from Belgian and Dutch national conviction cohorts and use latent class analysis to distinguish groups of individuals based on their history of...

Daders van zedendelicten worden vaak getypeerd op basis van een specifiek delict, bijvoorbeeld het laatst door hen gepleegde zedendelict. Het is onduidelijk of typologieën van deze daders op basis van hun criminele voorgeschiedenis hierbij aansluiten of tot nieuwe inzichten leiden. Deze studie identificeert verschillende typen criminele carrièrepat...

http://www.belspo.be/belspo/brain-be/themes_4_Strategic_en.stm#SOC *** Context *** Sex offences have attracted a lot of public and policy attention in the last decades. In Belgium, the Dutroux case led to unseen public protests and important policy changes. Elsewhere, similar horrifying events have taken place, also affecting in important ways po...

Since long, the delinquency of sex offenders has been the focus of many assumptions. These include the ideas that sex offenders are prone to commit new offences, that they are repeating (identical) sex offences and that they do not seize to offend. Such ideas suggest sex offenders are a distinct group. Based on the study of criminal careers of sex...

Ongeveer twee derde van alle ernstige alcoholongevallen wordt veroorzaakt door de relatief kleine groep zware alcoholovertreders (met een bloedalcoholgehalte van 1,3 g/l of hoger). In dit rapport inventariseren wij beschikbare kennis over de achtergronden en kenmerken van zware en recidiverende alcoholovertreders.

Various studies have shown that registered crime among non-western immigrant groups in the Netherlands is higher than among the average Dutch population. Little is known however concerning the differences in the nature of crime. The authors studied the degree to which various ethnic groups are represented in various types of officially registered c...

De afgelopen zestig jaar is in Nederland met regelmaat aandacht gevraagd voor daders in verschillende leeftijdsfasen, zoals jonge kinderen, adolescenten en jongvolwassenen, en voor de voorzieningen die voor deze leeftijdsgroepen geboden zijn. In 2011 heeft de staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie een adolescentenstrafrecht voorgesteld voor ad...

Scholars in the field of developmental criminology traditionally assign a major role to long-term risk factors such as inadequate parental supervision or poor school performance. Only recently has attention been paid to the effects of situational risk factors such as the presence of co-offenders and being drunk. Hardly any empirical research, howev...

Recorded crime as an indicator of the integration of individuals of non-Western origin.In this article, we seek to find out to what extent the various ethnic groups residing in the Netherlands are (over)represented as suspects in the recorded crime statistics. This research reveals that even after correcting for a number of socioeconomic background...

Over the past twenty years, international migration issues become inescapably prominent in European public debate. Issues about the arrival of new immigrants and the problems of integration processes are rooted in the deep and vast changes that have characterized the recent history of European international migration. This volume addresses aspects...

L’observatoire de la récidive du WODCL’observatoire de la récidive (Recidivemonitor) du WODC est un projet de recherche à long terme qui consiste à soumettre divers groupes de délinquants à des mesures standardisées de la récidive. Ce projet permet à la justice néerlandaise de mieux comprendre les résultats des interventions pénales ainsi que le dé...

The WODC Recidivism MonitorThe WODC Recidivism Monitor is a long-term research project that conducts standardised measurements of recidivism amongst diverse groups of offenders. This project will enable the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands to obtain a clearer overview as to the outcomes of penal interventions and the course of criminal career...

Uit diverse studies blijkt dat niet-westerse allochtonen oververtegenwoordigd zijn in de verdachtenpercentages (zie Kromhout en Van San 2003; Blom et al. 2005). In het integratiebeleid worden dan ook uiteenlopende middelen ingezet om deze onevenredig hoge betrokkenheid bij criminaliteit terug te dringen. Om de criminaliteit onder allochtonen en aut...