Long-Term Developments in Criminal Justice Arrangements and Criminality in the Northern Netherlands European or Dutch Perspective?

It is not very difficult to sketch the structure of criminal justice, the pattern of criminality and along with the changes in the development of the Dutch State during the period of the Republic; that is, the period of the Ancien Régime. I have chosen a different approach. The main question I asked myself whether and when we can speak of a long-term development, whether we can speak of a Dutch structure and a Dutch pattern in long-term developments. I turned the question 180 degrees and wond.