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Compliance Dynamics: A Multidisciplinary Review and Exploration of Compliance Processes in the Belgian Context

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What Works in Offender Compliance

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Systematic empirical criminological research on compliance is still relatively scarce, and this is also the case for Belgium. However, with the growing use of community sanctions the topic is becoming more important in a political landscape in no small part governed by a media logic of fear and calls for repressive control. Compliance can be studied from different angles: from the perspective of the person being put under supervision, from the standpoint of the supervisor and from the standpoint of the institution that has to take formal decisions in cases of non-compliance or breach of conditions or requirements. In this chapter, we mainly focus on the first perspective. We briefly discuss Bottoms’s (2001) analysis of compliance and present the relevant Belgian research known to us. More importantly, we try to make an effort at placing compliance within an interdisciplinary context.

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  1. Swansea University, UK

    Pamela Ugwudike (Lecturer in Criminology) & Peter Raynor (Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice) (Lecturer in Criminology) &  (Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice)

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Decoene, S., Beyens, K. (2013). Compliance Dynamics: A Multidisciplinary Review and Exploration of Compliance Processes in the Belgian Context. In: Ugwudike, P., Raynor, P. (eds) What Works in Offender Compliance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137019523_12

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