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Regression to the Mean: Punishment in the Netherlands

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Punishment in Europe

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When René van Swaaningen and Gerard de Jonge (1995) wrote their chapter on the Netherlands in the previous volume of critical anatomies of European penal systems nearly 20 years ago, they observed a trend, from humanitarian paternalism in the 1960s and 70s to a rather bleak penal business management in the 1980s and 90s. Their key conclusions then were that policymakers no longer considered rehabilitation to be the main goal of punishment, but the protection of society; that noncustodial sanctions were no longer intended as alternatives to custody, but as relatively cheap remedies to ease the capacity problem in prisons; that the sharp distinctions between custodial and non-custodial, repression and prevention were blurring; and that penal policy has become increasingly motivated by an alleged public sentiment against leniency in law enforcement. All of these conclusions can be reiterated in this chapter.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Middlesex, UK

    Vincenzo Ruggiero (Professor of Sociology) (Professor of Sociology)

  2. University of Greenwich, UK

    Mick Ryan (Emeritus Professor, Law and Criminology) (Emeritus Professor, Law and Criminology)

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Boone, M., van Swaaningen, R. (2013). Regression to the Mean: Punishment in the Netherlands. In: Ruggiero, V., Ryan, M. (eds) Punishment in Europe. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137028211_2

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