Artificial Intelligence systems are used today in several parts of the world to support the administration of criminal justice. The most widespread example concerns “predictive policing”, which aims at foretelling crime before it happens and improving its detection. AI allows geospatial as well as person-based policing and is involved in preventing and uncovering economic crimes such as fraud and money laundering.Especially in the context of crime mapping – or hot-spot analysis –, its...

This book offers insight into the development of the EU in the areas of justice, home affairs and security, embedded in a broader international context. In addition to the main part, dedicated to the EU, the book features chapters on cooperation in the areas concerned at Benelux, Schengen, Council of Europe, NATO, OSCE, G7/G20, OECD and UN levels.The chapter structure is identical for all cooperation levels addressed, discussing their actual policies after sketching their historical developme...

The study of the intersections between technology and crime is a well-established topic for criminal lawyers, gaining increasing significance over time. Initially, in the risk society, and even more so today, in the algorithmic society, the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) bring new complexities to light. AI systems are increasingly involved in perpetrating various kinds of harms. They can serve as new tools for committing crimes or directly cause serious harms to fundamental ...

Criminal law occupies a central role in the “prism” of human rights, given the relevant impact of trial and punishment on the personal sphere of individuals, which may be instrumentalised in the name of security claims for political purposes. It is no coincidence that during the Age of Enlightenment the main fundamental guarantees of criminal law were enshrined in human rights declarations, with an approach now widely accepted at an international level. In fact, the “dialogue” between...

Deze 45ste uitgave van de pocket Strafrecht bundelt naast het Strafwetboek en het Wetboek van Strafvordering, ook een aantal uittreksels uit de Grondwet, het Gerechtelijk Wetboek en het Europees Verdrag tot bescherming van de rechten van de mens en de fundamentele vrijheden. Bovendien bevat dit zakwetboekje tevens, chronologisch geordend, de bijzondere wetten die een algemeen belang hebben voor het strafrecht of voor de strafvordering. Zowel studenten als rechtspractici (politieambtenaren, ma...

Eén op twee Vlaamse jongeren met seksuele ervaring werd al ongewenst aangeraakt. Ook generatie Z worstelt duidelijk met seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag, en zowel daders als slachtoffers reageren vaak schouderophalend of berustend.

Die banalisering aanpakken, vergt o.m. een bijstelling van de kijk van jongeren op relaties, gendernormen en seksualiteit. Die wordt sterk bepaald door hun seksuele scripts – cultureel voorgeschreven en genderspecifieke scenario’s voor seksueel contact.

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Until the end of the 1990s, EU integration in the area of criminal law centred primarily around the regional deepening of traditional judicial cooperation in criminal matters and the development of law enforcement cooperation (including the setting up of Europol as a support agency). By the end of the 1990s respectively 2000s, the EU also gained (limited) supranational competence in the areas of substantive respectively procedural criminal law. Both judicial and law enforcement cooperation we...

Discussies over pedofilie en pedoseksualiteit zijn vaak sterk gemediatiseerd, waarbij ook pedofilie resoluut wordt geassocieerd met seksueel kindermisbruik. Doorgaans is er weinig of geen aandacht voor niet-plegende pedofielen. Zij ervaren weliswaar een aantrekking tot jonge kinderen, maar proberen die actief te onderdrukken en bewust geen pedoseksuele feiten te plegen. Met psychosociale moeilijkheden gerelateerd aan hun geaardheid kunnen ze omwille van stigma moelijker terecht bij de traditi...

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GERN (Groupement Européen de Recherches sur les Normativités) is a large consortium of scientific researchers in the domain of deviance and social control, more precisely studying delinquency, penal institutions, public policies of security and the importance of penal questions in society. Today GERN is a scientific network present in ten European countries and abroad, uniting researchers of different disciplines.

Each year the GERN organizes a doctoral summer school, giving PhD students

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