Publicaties

Within prisons and in recent research surrounding them, more and more attention is being paid to opportunities for active citizenship by incarcerated people. This implies that there is a greater recognition of the ability of incarcerated people to participate in and contribute to everyday life while in prison. For many incarcerated people, education is a critical gateway to opportunity. While many educators in prison dedicate themselves to ...

Civic engagement is increasingly relevant for healthy and active ageing and addressing social exclusion among older people. Current research focuses primarily on formal volunteering, overlooking other ways older people contribute to their families and communities. This study addresses these gaps by recognising civic engagement as multi-dimensional – including associational engagement, informal care-giving, formal volunteering, digital engagement ...

This study aimed to understand whether older adults not only received but also provided help during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium, which factors motivated them to help, and whether older adults differed from younger age groups in terms of helping behavior and motives. Bivariate analyses were performed using data generated from an online cross-sectional survey in Belgium (N = 1892).

The results showed that older adults who ...

Digital learning initiatives are gradually entering Belgian prisons. As little is known about how Belgian community-based actors and justice actors experience these digital learning opportunities for prisoners, this study aims to provide insight into (1) respondents’ perceptions of the existing digital opportunities, (2) what they perceive as added values of a digital learning offer and (3) how an ideal digital learning offer should look like. A ...

In 2018 heeft bijna 45% van de gedetineerdenpopulatie een niet-Belgische nationaliteit.1 Ondanks dit aanzienlijk aandeel bleef aandacht voor de participatie aan gevangenisactiviteiten van deze groep eerder beperkt in onderzoek, beleid en praktijk. Als reactie op deze onderzoeksleemte startte in 2017 het doctoraatsonderzoek van Flore Croux in kader van het FIP2-project over de participatie van niet-Belgische gedetineerden aan ...

This scoping review investigated foreign national and ethnic minority prisoners’ participation in formally organized occupations (prison activities) such as active citizenship, healthcare and treatment, leisure time, and reintegration occupations. It aimed to: (1) map available studies on both groups of prisoners’ participation in these occupations within prisons, and (2) evaluate existing research topics on participation and types of ...

To gain insight into the educational opportunities for European foreign national prisoners, an online survey was distributed among educational providers and prison managers (N = 108). The results demonstrate that courses for learning domestic languages are most frequently offered. Other educational courses mostly relate to primary education and psychosocial courses. Based on the online survey, four organizations are investigated in depth to gain ...

Aangezien de interesse vanuit de Vlaamse praktijk in actief burgerschap van gedetineerden sterk groeiende is, wil deze bijdrage een inspiratieoverzicht bieden van wat we verstaan onder actief burgerschap en hoe dit vorm krijgt binnen een gevangeniscontext. In de literatuur worden deze vormen van actief burgerschap ingedeeld aan de hand van de participatiepiramide. Daarnaast bestaat er ook een thematische indeling en wordt een onderscheid gemaakt ...

Utilizing a mixed-methods research design consisting of two consecutive
phases, this study investigates older adults’ perceptions and understanding of
social connectedness factors influencing late-life volunteering. In the first phase,
quantitative data from the Belgian Ageing Studies project (N = 24,508, from
89 municipalities) was analyzed through regression modeling. In the second,
qualitative phase, focus groups with ...

This article examines the profile of prisoners who do not take part in formal edu- cation while being incarcerated (e.g. language or ICT courses) and the barriers to participation these prisoners experience. Survey data were collected as part of a research project conducted in a remand prison in Belgium (n = 486). The results demonstrate that 29% of the prisoners take part in educational courses and that participation rates are lower among ...