Publications

This dissertation provides a first provisional answer to the following central research question: Why do some long-term prisoners max out from prison, rather than obtain a modality of early release? The dissertation includes a brief introduction, four substantive chapters and a discussion and conclusion. The first chapter provides a sketch of the available empirical evidence about maxing out from prison. First, the focus of the study is ...

For criminologists, Belgium is at once an interesting and a very complex country. Belgium is one of the first European countries where criminology became institutionalized in the universities. As for criminal justice, in many ways Belgium can be situated in the European middle. One feature of Belgium is its institutional complexity, with a push towards devolving decision-making powers from the federal level to its entities. This recently led to ...