Publications

A company engaging in illicit practices can undermine competitors operating within legal boundaries, ultimately eroding the public good of legality and integrity. Recently established institutional legality ratings aim to address this issue. We investigate the impact of these ratings through a randomized experiment simulating redistributive policies. These policies tax “defectors” (buyers of unrated products) and benefit “co-operators” (buyers ...

The discrepancy between short- and long-term rate estimates, known as the time-dependent rate phenomenon (TDRP), poses a challenge to extrapolating evolutionary rates over time and reconstructing evolutionary history of viruses. The TDRP reveals a decline in evolutionary rate estimates with the measurement timescale, explained empirically by a power-law rate decay, notably observed in animal and human viruses. A mechanistic evolutionary model, ...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) has asserted that the deprivation of liberty must not be accompanied by the dispossession of all human rights. The rights of detainees to life, personal integrity, and fair trial must be effectively respected and guaranteed just as they must be ensured to individuals who have not been deprived of liberty. This chapter examines the impact of transformative provisional measures granted by the ...

The increasing superdiversity of the Belgian society is mirrored in its forensic psychiatric population. A quantitative analysis of the national GEJO-database illustrates that 22,3% of all persons with a legal security measure has migrated in their life. These people reside more often in high-secured settings (i.e. prison facilities or forensic psychiatric facilities for compulsory care). A qualitative inquiry of judicial and healthcare experts ...

UNLABELLED: This study investigated interpersonal effects of regulating naturalistic facial signals on cooperation during an iterative Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD) game. Fifty pairs of participants played ten IPD rounds across a video link then reported on their own and their partner's expressed emotion and facial regulation in a video-cued recall (VCR) procedure. iMotions software allowed us to auto-code actors' and partners' facial activity ...

Racialized people who are labeled Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) are relatively overrepresented in forensic mental healthcare. In this respect, it is essential to provide culturally sensitive treatment in forensic mental healthcare in an attempt to reduce ethnic disparities. Both general mental healthcare and prison settings are actively exploring and producing empirical knowledge on culturally sensitive treatment, but it remains unclear what ...

Historically, social observers have repeatedly noted a correlation between education and crime, observing that individuals with lower levels of education are more likely to commit crime. However, the relationship between education and crime is complex, and it is important to clearly establish causality to determine if investing in education can effectively reduce crime. Merely observing persistent educational-attainment inequalities between ...

It is striking that in the administration of justice there are not many hard law LHR standards. Linguistic rights as general human rights, as rights for every human being, only concern arrest and criminal proceedings. Minority-specific rights include provisions on communication with public authorities, that also apply to police and prison personnel. In both respects, the supervisory practice, and related soft law standards, have extended the ...

We analyse how public managers interact with external stakeholders during cutbacks. Relying on strategic management scholarship, we develop an argument on why public managers decide for a closed or an open cutback management strategy. In the former, they try to close off the process for external stakeholders, whereas, in the latter, they actively engage with external stakeholders. A multiple qualitative case study of cutbacks in the Dutch prison ...