Conférencière : Maartje van der Woude
Maartje van der Woude is Full Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Development (VVI) and Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology. Her research interests include discretionary decision-making, the politicization of crime & migration, the merger of crime control & migration control, policing and procedural justice. After previous visiting affiliations at the Centre for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley and UC Hastings College of the Law, Maartje is currently a visiting professor at the Department of Government and Politics of the University of Maryland.
Résumé
Ever since the implementation of the Schengen agreement in 1985, driven by concerns about mass migration and transnational crime, Member states have sought ways to monitor internal migration mobility without breaching the Schengen Border Code. In the Netherlands the vital role of monitoring the internal border areas is fulfilled by the Military and Border Police (MBP). Their official task is to prevent irregular migration, yet, as a result of increased concerns over the EU’s external borders and the global war on terror, this official focus of immigration control seems to have been extended to unofficially also include crime control.
Whereas this development of 'crimmigration control' in border areas can partially be explained by developments on the EU and national policy level, it is also necessary to look at the role of human agency and the often highly discretionary decisions made by individual border patrol officers. To what extent do their actions (further) fuel this process of crimmigration control? Can their behaviour be explained by what in the literature on police ethics has been coined as 'noble cause' decision-making - decision-making that favours utilitarian ends in law enforcement activity - or are there other less noble underlying rationales?
Conférence présentée par le Centre international de criminologie comparée
