Fewer house burglaries every year
The number of house burglaries is steadily decreasing year after year, as can be seen in this series of figures. The reason? Less opportunity. Opportunity creates the thief. This means that reducing the opportunity for crime is the best way to reduce crime. More information? Graham Farrell, March 2024 Conference: Three Decades of Quantitative Criminology […]
Podcast The Criminologist: Jaap de Waard on his pearls of knowledge and the criminological challenges of the future
This podcast episode features a real gem, Jaap de Waard. Policy advisor at the Ministry of Justice and Security – and best known for his world-famous ‘knowledge pearls’. Jaap selected three pearls for the Criminologist that are discussed in this episode. It is about the influence of knowledge on policy and how crime has developed […]
Methods for research
IT IS GETTING SAFER IN THE NETHERLANDS, BUT NOT EVERYWHERE
21 March 2018 Authors: Peter Versteegh and René Hesseling Peter Versteegh and René Hessling are crime analysts at the police, Unit The Hague. The authors are available for questions and discussion by e-mail: peter.versteegh@politie.nl and rene.hesseling@politie.nl Translated by Bianca Kreuning and Paul van Soomeren 21 March 2018, Article in Secondant – Platform for social safetySecondant: […]
CRIME IS UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE NETHERLANDS
23 November 2020 AUTHOR: BERT BERGHUIS Bert Berghuis is a former adviser at the Ministry of Justice and Security. He is available for questions and discussions via the editors, e-mail: secondant@hetccv.nl Translated by Bianca Kreuning and Paul van Soomeren 23 November 2020, article in Secondant – Platform for social safety Secondant: De criminaliteit is zeer […]
A SUCCESSFUL HIC APPROACH NEEDS MAINTAINING
13th January 2021 Author: Door van der Wiele The author is editor at the Centre for Crime Prevention and Security 13 January 2021, Article in Secondant – Platform for social safety Secondant: Ook een geslaagde HIC-aanpak vergt onderhoud (ccv-secondant.nl) (Dutch) Preventive measures that are effective against High Impact Crimes must receive permanent attention and energy. […]