The Recent Trend towards Reducing the Prison Population in The Netherlands

Quinney, R. : The Social Reality of Crime, U.S.A, Little, Brown & Co., 1970, p. 316.

Biles, D. and Mulligan, G. : "Mad or Bad?—The Enduring Dilemma", Brit. J. Criminol., 13: 275-279, 1973.

An outline can be found in the excellent study by K. S. Sharples: The Legal Framework of Judicial Sentencing Policy: A Study Based on the Dutch and English Systems. University Press, Amsterdam, 1971 . See also: Rosett, A.: " Trial and Discretion in Dutch Criminal Justice", U.C.L.A. Law Rev. 19: 353-390, 1972.

Relevant empirical research has been done by C. P. Chr. M. Oomen: Voorlopige hechtenis en vrijheidsbenemende straffen. (A Penametric Study of a Number of Crimes against Property in the Netherlands), especially with regard to pre-trial detention, Deventer (The Netherlands), Kluwer, 1970. Also: Franken, H. : Vervolgingsbeleid (The Policy of the Public Prosecutor), Deventer (The Netherlands), Kluwer, 1973.

For details of all provisions mentioned, see the study by K. S. Sharples, supra 3.

Hoefnagels, G.P. : The Other Side of Criminology, Deventer (The Netherlands), Kluwer, 1973, p. 153.

The same was said by the British Home Secretary last year, Int. J. Off. Ther. Comp. Criminol., 17:2, 1973, p. 203.

Hegel, G.W.F. : Philosophy of Right (trans. by T. M. Knox), U.K., Oxford Univ. Press., 1967, S 218 Addition.