Stephan Parmentier

KU Leuven | ku leuven · Research unit of Criminal Law and Criminology

In dit boek worden de resultaten van de derde advocatenbarometer gepresenteerd; een empirisch rechtssociologisch onderzoek naar het profiel van advocaten die zijn verbonden aan een of meerdere balies in Vlaanderen en aan de Nederlandstalige balie te Brussel. In het kader van deze advocatenbarometer werden meer dan 2.500 advocaten bevraagd in de per...

International and Transnational Crime and Justice - edited by Mangai Natarajan June 2019

This chapter starts with a brief overview of the history of criminology in Belgium until the 1960s. Attention will be drawn to some important predecessors and it will discuss how the birth and early development of criminology in Belgium were closely related to the success of the doctrine of Défense sociale at the end of the 19th century. Discussion...

Cambridge Core - Human Rights - Between Rights and Responsibilities - edited by Stephan Parmentier

Place-based approaches to transitional justice, which foreground victim participation, have become increasingly popular in the last decade. The assumption is that these approaches enhance legitimacy, increase the local relevance of interventions, and empower victims. However, the causal mechanisms by which this alleged empowerment takes place, are...

Afghanistan constitutes a good example of how the absence of transitional justice measures leads human rights violators of past regimes to remain in positions of power with impunity and to continue to engage in other forms of crimes. In particular, this article focuses on land grabbing as a form of economic-state crime in the country. Relying on da...

While trust within and between organisations is considered a major indicator for successful organisation the debates on reforms of the judicial system overlook the need for internal trust. Drawing on a case study of the Flemish juvenile public prosecutor’s office and juvenile court, this chapter aims to explore the organisational trust phenomenon i...

Socio-legal studies in Belgium represent a diverse patchwork of many topics studied from many angles. This paper first presents a brief historical account of socio-legal studies and their organisation, in the north and south of the country. It has no ambition to give a full overview of socio-legal studies in Belgium, let alone be exhaustive. It mer...

There is a growing recognition in transitional justice research of the crucial significance of context-appropriate measures of justice practices and needs, which account for the diversity, locality, and complexity of individuals’ experiences of the past. In this perspective, this paper highlights the significance of oral history collections for exp...

Wereldbeeld

This comprehensive introduction to international criminal law addresses the big issues in the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. Expert contributors include international lawyers, judges, prosecutors, criminologists and historians, as well as the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. Serving as a foundation for deeper study...

Background Worldwide, thousands of children are acting in different roles in armed groups. Whereas human rights activism and humanitarian imperatives tend to emphasize the image of child soldiers as incapable victims of adults’ abusive compulsion, this image does not fully correspond with prevailing pedagogical and jurisprudential discourses, nor d...

Reseña a cargo de uno de los co-editores,Prof. Dra. Cindy Mels. Departamento de Psicología del Desarrollo y Educación Facultad de Psicología. Universidad Católica del Uruguay

In Nederland werd door de Rijkswet van 2 december 2004 de Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid opgericht. Deze onafhankelijke raad stelt onderzoeken in naar rampen, ongevallen en incidenten en formuleert op basis daarvan adviezen aan de betrokken actoren om de veiligheid te versterken. De gasexplosie in Gellingen, de treinramp in Buizingen en de trein- e...

De advocatenbarometer 2012/2013 Een beschrijvende analyse van het profiel van de Vlaamse advocaat In De advocatenbarometer 2012/2013 worden de resultaten gepresenteerd van een empirisch rechtssociologisch onderzoek naar het profiel van advocaten die zijn verbonden aan een van de balies in Vlaanderen en aan de Nederlandstalige balie te Brussel. Na...

INTRODUCTION Debate over what to do about previous gross and systematic violations of human rights often arise during times of transition, when societies are moving away from an autocratic regime toward more democratic forms of government. In the criminological literature, many of these acts are considered “political crimes,” meaning crimes committ...

The Changing Role of Law in Japan offers a comparative perspective on the changing role of law in East Asia, discussing issues such as society, cultural values, access to the legal system and judicial reform. This innovative book places Japan in the wider context, juxtaposed with Europe, rather than the US, for the first time. © Dimitri Vanoverbeke...

Na de analyse van het voorvallenonderzoek in Nederland richten we het vizier op de Belgische realiteit. Vertrekkend vanuit de functies van het voorvallenonderzoek wordt nagegaan op welke wijze deze vorm van onderzoek thans in België georganiseerd is, waarbij bijzondere aandacht zal worden besteed aan twee actoren die hierin een centrale rol spelen:...

Almost 20 years after the end of the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the debates on how to deal with the past in Serbia are still ongoing. From the very start the international community has put major emphasis on the criminal prosecution and conviction of the persons mostly responsible for the war crimes in the region, both by establishing...

The debate on how to deal with the past in Serbia is still ongoing almost twenty years after the end of the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia. From the very start the international community has put major emphasis on the criminal prosecution and conviction of the persons mostly responsible for the war crimes in the region, both by establishin...

Debates about serious human rights violations and international crimes committed in the past appear during times of political transition. New political elites are confronted with fundamental questions of how to seek truth, establish accountability for offenders, provide reparation to victims, promote reconciliation, deal with trauma and build trust...

This chapter focuses on the first and crucial phase in 'building a case', that is, the criminal investigation. 'International criminal investigation' is defined as a process of searching, collecting, collating, and synthesizing information, which is conducted by international prosecutors against individuals who are allegedly liable for internationa...

The recruitment and operations of child soldiers have been hitting the headlines in politics and the media for many years. However, a much broader circle of children is affected by armed conflicts. Hence, the many challenges to deal with youth affected by armed conflict exceed by far the issue of the recruitment and demobilisation of child soldiers...

With a contribution by John Braithwaite himself: 'Opportunities and dangers of capitalist criminology' Over the past decades, the Australian social scientist John Braithwaite (1951) has played a crucial role in the development of international criminology. He is universally considered one of the most renowned criminologists of our times and he has...

This paper sets out the main dimensions and the scope of academic freedom as a fundamental right. It also aims to indicate how European and national policymakers and legislators can and should take measures to effectively protect, facilitate, strengthen and optimise academic freedom. The paper is based on the assumption that academic freedom is of...

Tal van gevangenen werden tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in concentratiekampen ingezet als arbeidskrachten om te werken aan de ontwikkeling van Duitsland. Terwijl deze arbeid in de jaren 1939-1945 een grotere economische betekenis kreeg, steeg in diezelfde periode ook het dodental in de gevangenkampen. Deze bijdrage probeert inzicht te geven in de...

Do human rights offer real protection when disadvantaged groups invoke them at the local level in an attempt to improve their living conditions? If so, how can we make sure that the experiences of those invoking human rights at the local level have an impact on the further development of human rights (at national and other levels) so that the local...

The last half century has witnessed huge efforts to establish the universality of human rights. Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948, numerous international treaties and declarations have reaffirmed human rights as norms applicable on a global scale. Several universal and regional institutions o...

Like other modern-day democracies, Belgium has in the last quarter century introduced many changes in its system for justice administration, by undertaking judicial reforms and commissioning empirical research on public confidence. Following long years of fierce criticism of the police and the criminal justice system since the late 1980s, the turn...

Criminal justice has traditionally been associated with the nation state, its legitimacy and its authority. The growing internationalisation of crime control raises crucial and complex questions about the future shape of justice and urban governance as these are experienced at local, national and international realms. The emergence of new internati...

Criminology is a booming discipline, yet one which can appear divided and fractious. The chapters in this book respond to a series of questions designed to investigate the state, impact, and future challenges of the discipline: What is criminology for? What is the impact of criminology? How should criminology be done? What are the key issues and de...

SIXTEEN YEARS AFTER the beginning of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the conflicts that ravaged the whole region, most intensely Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Kosovo, each of the countries is still struggling to find the best way(s) to address the atrocities that occurred in the past, realize their consequences, and rebuild trus...

Over the past decades, the Australian social scientist John Braithwaite (1951) has played a crucial role in the development of international criminology. He is universally considered one of the most renowned criminologists of our times and he has characteristically put his scientific engagement at the service of humanity and society by aiming at so...

International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. This book examines the field from a global perspective. It provides an introduction to the nature of international and transnational crimes and the theoretical perspectiv...

The phenomenon of human trafficking cannot be separated from a number of important changes that have taken place in society - at both a local and global level - over the last few decades. In addition, there have been a number of important theoretical developments, as well as the emergence of several law enforcement models directed to combat the gro...

The last decade has witnessed a rapid development in the field of reparation for victims of serious human rights violations, both at the national and the international level. Both in (post-)conflict situations and in situations of large-scale human rights abuses it has become a major question of transitional justice how to repair the harm inflicted...

Debates about serious human rights violations and international crimes committed in the past usually start during times of political transition, that is when societies are moving away from a non-democratic regime and the new political elites are confronted with the fundamental question on how to address the heavy burden of their dark past. This que...

Tussen juli 2006 en juni 2007 voerde een gemengde onderzoeksequipe van de K.U.Leuven en de Universiteit Gent 1 een onderzoek uit naar het profiel van de Vlaamse advocatuur bij alle advocaten ingeschreven aan één van de 14 Vlaamse balies per 1 december 2006. Het onderzoek was empirisch van aard en hield een kwantitatieve bevraging van alle Nederland...

In situations of a transition to democracy, the legal profession tends to have a strong impact. While this is quite clear in the case when criminal prosecutions are initiated against perpetrators of gross human rights violations, and when amnesty provisions are enacted for some violations, it is far less obvious in cases when a truth commission is...

Het aantal Europese rechtsregels die op één of andere wijze ingrijpen in de situatie van de consument is groot. Zo kan de indruk ontstaan dot men reeds een flink eind op weg is naar een consumentenbescherming op Europees vlak. Toch blijft een echt consumentenbeleid ter hoogte van de EG grotendeels achterwege. Dit artikel wil deze ontwikkeling bespr...

The second Consumer Action Programme of the European Community (1981) has introduced the idea of a dialogue between producers and consumers, leading to voluntary agreements or codes of conduct. Today, several types of codes exist within the area of the European Community. They differ in their geographic origin, their adoption procedure and their mo...