NCJ Number
79664
Date Published
1978
Length
464 pages
Annotation
Proceedings of the Fourth Belgium Conference for Criminology on criminal justice and scientific research are reported.
Abstract
Conference participants are Belgian police, court, and corrections officials. Presentations to the police work groups are devoted to scientific research and its relationship to police crime policy; a comparison of the research-police policy relationship in West Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium; problems of collaboration between police and researchers, functions of and approaches to criminalistics in criminology; the public image of the police and the police self-image; police training; and criteria for the selection of police officers. Presentations to justice officials relate to the crisis of the criminal justice system and the need for policy changes such as decriminalization and victim compensation, obstacles on the part of judges and researchers to better collaboration and a refutation of views on judges expressed by Prof. Van Outrive. The presentation to the corrections work group is a discussion of problems in corrections research and recommendations for more effective collaboration between researchers and prison administrators. Final reports synthesize the conclusions and recommendations of the police, justice, and corrections work groups. A list of conference participants is supplied.