The present study is concerned with the interplay between anticipated moral emotions and self-serving justifications in the explanation of intentions to steal. Theoretically, it has been suggested that both moral dimensions may interact in such a way that their effects amplify each other. This amplification hypothesis has rarely been tested. The fo...
The field of counter-terrorism studies has witnessed significant growth over the past two decades. Despite this growth, research on the sentencing of terrorist offenders remains relatively limited. This scoping review aims to comprehensively map this research area in terms of volume, nature, and characteristics, adopting a rigorous and transparent ...
This article analyzes how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handles evidence of pushback, where states violently force asylum seekers away from borders. An examination of how the experiences of pushback survivors get translated (or not) into judgments contributes to theoretical discussions about truth, epistemic practices, and law. The art...
This study tests the law of crime concentration at place in Brussels Capital Region (approx. 1.2 million inhabitants) and examines the spatial stability of crime concentrations by applying Andresen's Spatial Point Pattern Test. Besides testing the law of crime concentration city-wide, this study also tests the law of crime concentration in the cont...
In the past decade expectations about how much transitional justice can achieve have grown, and have come to include ambitious and broad objectives such as prevention, societal transformation and social justice. Such outcomes can only – if at all – be imagined if transitional justice interventions are conceived of as steppingstones that kickstart a...
Background : Little is known about cannabis use problems among individuals who use cannabis for medical purposes and whether rates and determinants of cannabis use problems in medical users differ to those observed among individuals using for recreational reasons. This study examines whether Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) scores differ across i...
We conducted an in-depth single case study of one of the largest fraud scandals in the history of football: the Belgian Zheyun Ye case. In 2004-2006, a Chinese businessman gained influence over Belgian professional football clubs for the purpose of fixing matches and betting on the outcome of these matches. Using a mixed-methods design, we studied ...
