NCJ Number
169885
Date Published
1996
Length
81 pages
Annotation
Policy developments in the Netherlands regarding law enforcement, safety, and criminal justice are viewed in the context of socioeconomic developments, the drug problem, crime, and victimization.
Abstract
The focus is on coherent and balanced law enforcement and safety policies, available and required penitentiary capacity, crime prevention, and sentencing. Policy goals are also articulated in terms of the need for correctional facility capacity, alternatives to short custodial sanctions, punitive sheltering for and the care of drug addicts, detention phases, quotas on prison cell capacity, custody of aliens, and ways to increase penal capacity. In addition, the implementation of law enforcement and safety policies by administrative and private law is examined. Consideration is paid to the organization and instruments of administrative and private law enforcement and fixed penalties.