Tussen pragmatiek en dogmatiek:een rechtsverkennend onderzoek naar de beveiligingsgedachte in het sanctiestelsel van Engeland en Wales, en de lessen die we daaruit kunnen trekken voor het Nederlandse stelsel

A current question is whether the criminal sanctions system can and must (and if so, how) contribute to protecting society against individuals deemed dangerous. The debate about this in the Netherlands is fairly theoretical. The discussion has become strongly intertwined with the dogmatic distinction between punishment and measure. We tend to assess the nature of sanctions according to where they are housed within the sanctions system (on the punishment or the measure track); that assessment then often determines our judgement of which guarantees we consider necessary. This gives rise to two r... Mehr ...