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Preventive Detention: A Simulation for Use in Youth and Adult Education
This game addresses the topic of preventive detention, a form of secure custody used to hold prison inmates beyond the original sentence imposed by a judge. The practice is most often targeted at convicted sex offenders and violent criminals. Upon reaching the end of one’s sentence, a prisoner appears before a judge who, often based on psychiatric evidence about the prisoner’s… Read More
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Solitary Confinement: a Threat to Denmark’s Credibility
"You can judge a society by the way it treats its prisoners"- Winston Churchill Although Danish society often sees itself as an ideal community with a competent state that protects the downtrodden, this vision has been tainted by injustices in the Danish penal system. Together with a group of American students visiting Vestre Fængsel, a Danish prison, we discovered this one bright… Read More
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Delinquency Among Minority Youth: Can They Be Better Rehabilitated?
Juvenile delinquency is often considered to be a predictor of the general crime level of a society. Because the adolescent years are formative, and determine the criminal involvement of young people as they develop into adults, it is important to address juvenile delinquency through effective rehabilitative approaches. Juvenile crime statistics in the Netherlands show an overrepresentation of… Read More
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The Absence of Positive Recognition for Individuals of Marginalized Groups in Danish Society
At first glance, it seems inherently paradoxical. From the inside, the setting appears to be an enchanting church in Denmark - the occasion, just another ordinary Sunday ceremony – and when the choir begins to sing, the entire church overflows with choral voices. Yet neither the church nor the choir is entirely ordinary: the church is located at Vridsløselille Prison, and the source… Read More
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Building Communication Networks Between Associations and a Potential Public: Using Social Networking to Inform Teens About Cultural Programming
Problem Statement: The number of violent crimes reported in France has been rising for the past ten years, with an increased percentage of these offenses performed by juvenile offenders in ZUS (Zones urbaines sensibles) regions. Addressing juvenile crime has been identified by police as a major challenge for the future. Many grass-roots organizations in the suburbs of Paris seek to… Read More
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Racial Profiling at Schiphol Airport
In 2002 there was a 60% increase in drug trafficking through Schiphol Airport in The Netherlands resulting in stricter procedures, dubbed the one-hundred percent controls, which were used to check passengers for drug smuggling. One Surinamese woman claimed that the severity of the one-hundred percent control resulted in the miscarriage of her baby. As part of the control, the woman was… Read More
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Taking Crisis as a Chance: Innovation, Community Change, and Reforming the Criminal Legal System in Red Hook, Brooklyn
“First things learned are hardest to forget. Traditions pass from one generation to the next. We need to change.” Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991) On December 17, 1992, Principal Patrick Daly left Public School 15 in Brooklyn to search for a nine year-old child who had run out of school after getting into a fight with a class-mate. Daly ran into the Central Mall that flows… Read More
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The Second Sentence: Obstacles to Public Housing in New York City for Women with Criminal Records
Since 1977 female imprisonment in the United States has ballooned 757 percent. Female incarceration rates are rising faster than any other population. Upon release from prison, in order to successfully reenter their communities, women identify housing as one of their most urgent needs. A safe, decent and affordable home is essential for human survival and dignity. However, women with criminal… Read More
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Return to Sender: The Expulsion of Criminal Immigrants from Denmark – An Analysis
Case 1: Iran, 1986. As Iran and Iraq wage war against each other, Davood Amrollahi, 20, an Iranian citizen, starts his military training. On April 25, 1987, Amrollahi deserts the Iranian army and flees to Turkey. At that time, all asylum-seekers who had deserted the army and left their home countries before the armistice between Iran and Iraq in the summer of 1988, were granted a… Read More
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The Criminalization of Hate Speech in the Netherlands
In approaching the topic of the criminalization of hate speech in the Netherlands, it was necessary as an American-Dutch team to bring our own culturally-indoctrinated ideas about freedom of speech to the drawing board at the outset of our working relationship. A few weeks ago our outlooks on limiting speech were significantly different than we find them to be after having explored in depth this… Read More
