Globally, there are growing calls for Higher Education Institutions to become more civically engaged and socially relevant while increasing public interest in the impact of universities on their localities and regions. Engaged Learning facilitates students to apply theory to real-world contexts outside of the University and to co-produce knowledge with and for the community. Engaged Learning provides students with the skills which increase their employability, and improve their personal and p...

Counterplay is a proactive security concept that complements your existing security plan and tackles your security challenges in a different way. Counterplay radically chooses the criminal perspective. Looking through the eyes of the enemy to better protect yourself. Not by tracking down or attacking potential enemies, but by pro-actively subverting as many attack strategies as possible. You are thinking ahead in a game of chess with the enemy.With plenty of practical examples and useful tips...

Artificial Intelligence is already widely used in many sectors of society. The advent of this technology, and the harms that it may create to interests worthy of protection by criminal law, questions whether the special part of criminal codes is suitable for addressing the challenges that this technology creates. Therefore, it is relevant to reflect on the necessity to amend the special part of the criminal code, integrating AI-related offences. This encompasses offences whose criminalisation...

Ever since evidence has been crossing borders, law enforcement authorities have been searching for a way to ensure the cross-border acceptance of evidence gathered in another Member State. In that respect, the idea of a 'free movement of evidence', i.e. the automatic acceptance (admissibility) of evidence gathered in accordance with certain conditions by EU Member States in reliance on the results of investigative measures executed in another Member State, has been adverted to by scholars and...

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 the 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 student...

Jose Luis de la Cuesta es Presidente honorario de la AIDP, Catedrático de Derecho Penal de la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) y Director del Instituto Vasco de Criminología (España).

Isidoro Blanco Cordero es miembro del Comité de la Revue y Catedrático de la Universidad de Alicante (España).

Miren Odriozola Gurrutxaga es Secretaria del Comité Científico de la AIDP, Profesora Adjunta de Derecho Penal en la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) y miembro del Instituto Vasco de Cr...

Een zorg(e)loze jeugd verwijst naar jongeren die zich ontworstelen aan de zorg die eigenlijk nog niet gemist kan worden. Centraal in dit onderzoek staan transitiejongeren. Dit zijn jongmeerderjarige residentiële zorgverlaters met complexe en meervoudige problemen, bij wie in verband met het onttrekken aan zorg de dringende noodzaak wordt gevoeld door hulpverleners om (ook) na het bereiken van de meerderjarigheid en na het vertrek uit de residentiële jeugdhulpverlening, zorg te verlenen. Een...

The system of international criminal justice was established in response to gross human rights violations committed during World War II. Despite its development over the past seven decades, challenges and critiques remain unresolved or have subsequently emerged, particularly in the context of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Key issues include amnesties, immunities, controversial acquittals, non-cooperation, interpretative fragmentation, and cultural clashes. Criticism emerged as a rea...

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...