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The truck driver who bought a café

The present study aims at understanding how individuals engage in organized crime activities. Processes responsible for organized crime involvement are still poorly understood, particularly for those who become engaged only later in life. In-depth interviews with 16 inmates, all convicted of participation in organized crime and incarcerated in Dutch prisons, illuminate how individuals at different life stages become involved in crime in general, and in organized crime activities in particular. Most participants we interviewed turn out to have experienced an adult onset in crime. Their involvement mechanisms are analysed and compared with mechanisms applicable to offenders with an early start in crime. It was found that offenders with an early start in crime have a wealth of opportunities and criminal contacts, whereas individuals who become involved in crime later in life are exposed to crime opportunities in conventional settings.

Hoe kan sport bijdragen aan het re-integreren van delinquenten?

Er is veel geschreven over de rol van sport in het bevorderen van sociaal, psycho‐ logisch en fysiek welbevinden van mensen. Deze literatuur is echter grotendeels gericht op het sociaal domein en daarbinnen veel op jonge mensen, maar weinig op contexten binnen een justitieel kader, bijvoorbeeld de gevangenis of reclasse‐ ring. De wetenschappelijke aandacht voor de meerwaarde van sport en bewegen voor delinquenten is beperkt. In een lopend onderzoeksproject onderzoeken wij de belangrijkste factoren om sport in te zetten ter bevordering van participatie van mensen in een kwetsbare positie (in detentie, de reclassering en de maatschappelijke opvang). Daarbinnen is een literatuurstudie uitgevoerd naar de meerwaarde van sport en bewegen, specifiek voor delinquenten. Dit betreft dus personen die binnen een justitieel kader sport- en beweegactiviteiten ondernemen of binnen een sportcontext re-integreren (denk bij dat laatste bijvoorbeeld aan vrijwilligerswerk op een sportclub in de laatste fase van detentie). In dit artikel wordt antwoord gegeven op de vraag: wat is in de literatuur bekend over de meerwaarde van sport en bewegen voor het reintegreren van delinquenten?

Almshouses of Bartholomeus Hospital in Nineteenth Century Utrecht

The focus of my research is how Bartholomeus Guesthouse (BG), founded in 1407 by Willem van Abcoude, has organized care over more than 600 years for the elderly and elderly sick people in the Centre of Utrecht. After the reorganization of 1817 -by Royal Law- the 7 (9) Guesthouses were merged to one Board called “College van Regenten der Vereenigde Gods-en Gasthuizen” .They have had their domicile in Bartholomeus Guesthouse. This Guesthouse survived as elderly care centre on particular foundation, which has meant until today that people from different religions were welcome. The properties of the other guesthouses came under supervision of the Board of “Vereenigde Gods-en Gasthuizen”. The heritage of the other foundations was , in terms of property and land, considerable. In my paper I will present the following items: -An inventarisation of the situation after 1817 and the ‘cameren’ (vrij woningen) of the different guesthouses in Utrecht and what their (living) conditions were at that time; -the Policy of the Board supervising the Free Houses/ Cameren for Elderly during this area; the observation of the archive manager S.Muller Fz.is good illustration of the situation in 1900; -the inhabitants of the ‘vrij woningen’; the selection and the rules as part of the social housing policy; - a more general analysis: the policy of poor relief and the debate of who had to take care of the poor? - all subjects give an answer to the question whether or not poor relief can be regarded as a safety valve for the (lower) middle class, in the ninetheenth century.

Using the Obser-View in Qualitative Research

The obser-view is a method to generate data and create a learning space for both researcher and participants in qualitative research. It includes reflection between the two after the researcher has observed the participant. This article aims to reveal the benefits and challenges encountered when using the obser-view in two different research projects. In a Dutch project whose aim was to empower residents with dementia, in nursing homes the obser-view was used to generate data and create space for reflection which included residents and the family members. It showed that the obser-view cannot be finished when reflection does not happen. A Danish project with the aim to map the practice for inmates’ opportunities for education and job guidance highlighted that it made participants—educational prison leaders and teachers—aware they were doing their jobs by rote and showed the difficulties the researcher had trying to reflect with some participants. In both projects the obser-view created a learning space for participants. A benefit of the obser-view is that it can be used in dissimilar settings with different research purposes and with vulnerable and stigmatized people often excluded from the research. A challenge is for the researcher to reflect with participants, which is more likely to be successful if they have had time to develop a trusting relationship. Although the obser-view is a novel method in qualitative research, it has proved useful in different settings. It is a valuable method and we recommend developing it further in additional different settings with different populations.