Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 85, Issue 3, 2010

Recidivism of juvenile homicide offenders . Serious offences against persons perpetrated by juveniles raise fundamental questions about the background, causes, and prevention of future crime. The current study addresses the potential of future crime of juvenile homicide offenders (JHOs) in The Netherlands who were incarcerated in the period 1992-2007. In contrast to merely descriptive former research on recidivi Read More

Does knowledge lead to loaning and loaning to learning? The effect of information about student loans on loaning behaviour and study progress of Dutch students . In recent years, the Dutch government has encouraged students to take out loans. The assumptions were that spreading knowledge about attractive credit terms would create a positive attitude about loaning, and as a result stimulate loaning, thereby loweri Read More

The public acceptance of voluntary childlessness in the Netherlands: . From 20 to 90 per cent in 30 years . In this paper, we address two research questions, which we answer with data from 13 waves of the repeated cross-sectional survey Cultural Change in the Netherlands (CCN, 1965-1996). First, we decompose the increasing acceptance of voluntary childlessness in effects of cohort replacement and intra-cohort change. We Read More

Assimilation into the literary mainstream? Ethnic boundaries in newspaper reviews of ethnic minority authors in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany . This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009, and to what extent ethnic boundaries in literary criticism Read More