Miranda Boone
Biographic Data
| ID | 5094023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda Boone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda |
| FAMILY NAME | Boone |
| SIGNATURE | BOONE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5333-4587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why do detention rates rise or fall? A statistical and document analysis of the diverging Dutch and Belgian detention population trends between 2000 and 2020
Since 2005, detention rates in the Netherlands have decreased significantly, reversing prior growth. In contrast, neighbouring Belgium has experienced a substantial increase in its detention rates since the 1990s. By 2020 Belgium detained almost twice as many persons per 100,000 inhabitants as the Netherlands. The contrast between the two countries is striking as they are neighbouring countries with a partially shared history, language and crimin…
A Taste of Prison: A Study on the Relationship between Food Satisfaction and Experienced Severity of Imprisonment
This study explored the relationship between prison food satisfaction and experienced severity of imprisonment (ESI). Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to verify distinct food satisfaction aspects, and regression analyses were estimated to examine their association with ESI. The findings revealed a negative relationship between food satisfaction and ESI, particularly for satisfaction with food choice and variety, highlighting food as a …
There’s (no) accounting for taste: Identifying and predicting subgroups of incarcerated persons based on perceived food sufficiency and personal and lifestyle characteristics
BACKGROUND: In recent decades, research focus on prison climate and normalization has increased, highlighting food as a particularly important dimension of prison life. This has recently led to policy reforms in Western Europe, aimed at improving dietary quality, meeting incarcerated persons’ food needs, and supporting sustainability goals. Meeting food needs can benefit health, well-being, and the overall prison experience, however, little is kn…
Similar cases, different punishment: Case matching as a method for understanding differing detention population trends between the Netherlands and Belgium
This study examines the significant disparity in prison population trends between the Netherlands and Belgium over the past two decades. Using a unique qualitative case-matching approach, it compares 40 thoroughly matched criminal cases across four offence categories – theft and (violent) property offences, drug offences, sexual offences and homicide offences – to examine differences in sentencing and sentence implementation in both countries. Th…
Predictors of reward status in prison: Behaviour, motivation, and self-governance ability
Reward systems in prison are applied worldwide. In reward systems, the responsibility for behavioural reform is increasingly transferred from states to incarcerated individuals, as these individuals can earn a reward status by complying with institutional rules. The underlying assumption of such systems is that rewards promote motivation for compliance. Despite the large impact of (not) earning reward status on individual lives, it has seldomly b…
Sentencing in the Netherlands: The Role of Probation in a Miniaturized Sanction System
Despite immense recent growth in the Netherlands in sanctions that can replace short prison sentences, the proportion of people admitted to prisons is relatively high by European standards because of an increased focus on less severe crimes, combined with relatively high use of pretrial detention. Many community service orders and supervision orders are imposed by prosecutors and judges for relatively minor crimes. Therefore, many sentencing deci…
Probation and Parole in Europe
In this essay, we review uses of and developments in probation and parole in Europe, and consider the prospects for such sanctions. Our analysis reveals huge variation across European jurisdictions in the extent to which supervisory sanctions are used and in how their uses relate to the uses of imprisonment. We find evidence of very large expansions in the numbers of people under supervision in several European countries, but little or no evidenc…
Tackling debt problems in the criminal justice system: A study into the trajectories and bottlenecks of imposed financial requirements in the Netherlands
Research has shown how debt problems of individuals involved in the criminal justice system may hinder successful reintegration. In various jurisdictions, criminal law offers opportunities to support reducing debt problems, but insights into the experiences of tackling debt problems within a criminal law framework is limited. Using a qualitative research design, this study aims to understand considerations and implications of financial requiremen…
Privacy, promotionalism and the proliferation of state-performed criminal record screening in the Netherlands: How a restrictive legal framework can still result in a steep increase of criminal backgr…
The Netherlands has endorsed a unique system regarding the management, disclosure and screening of criminal records. Disclosure to third parties is strongly restricted, yet all (potential) employees can request a government agency to provide a risk assessment − known as a Certificate of Conduct (‘VOG’ in Dutch) − for every kind of employment application to determine whether they are fit for a given job. This article explains how and why this Dutc…
Explaining the collapse of the prison population in the Netherlands: Testing the theories
Between 2005 and 2015 the Dutch prison population decreased by 44 percent. Such a rapid yet sustained reduction in the number of prisoners has no parallel in the Western world in this period. What are the factors that underlie this unique development? This article charts the decline of prisoner numbers in the Netherlands and considers areas that may account for it. It takes a systemic approach which considers publicly available data that has invo…
The effects of reward systems in prison: A systematic review
Lost in translation: The principle of normalisation in prison policy in Norway and the Netherlands
The principle of normalisation has gained more prominence in international prison law, with both the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules (UN SMR) and the European Prison Rules (EPR) promoting normalisation to the guiding principles. In general terms, normalisation refers to shaping life in prison in resemblance to life outside prison. However, it largely remains unclear what this principle entails for prison policy. The general formulation in t…
Where Two ‘Exceptional’ Prison Cultures Meet: Negotiating Order in a Transnational Prison
Can a prison in the Netherlands, that is neither ‘Dutch’ nor ‘Norwegian’, be ‘legitimate?’ What are the moral challenges? Our study of the controversial Norgerhaven project—a Norwegian prison located in the Netherlands—found that this ‘experiment’ generated one of the most reflexive, ‘deliberative’ prisons we have encountered. Officials involved in the decision assumed that the two jurisdictions were alike in their values. Few were prepared for t…
Comparing electronic monitoring regimes: Length, breadth, depth and weight equals tightness
This paper compares the use of electronic monitoring in three European jurisdictions – Belgium, England and Wales and the Netherlands. It suggests that rates of use, the accepted method of comparison in relation to imprisonment and a proxy measure of ‘punitiveness’ provide a misleading picture when applied to electronic monitoring. This paper transforms Crewe's concept of ‘tightness’ from a dimension of weight to encompass the overlapping element…
The pains of being unauthorized in the Netherlands
Ethnographic fieldwork amongst 105 unauthorized migrants in the Netherlands shows that unauthorized migrants suffer from the pains of being unauthorized. These migrants feel punished and are severely hurt by – amongst others – the deprivation of healthy and secure living conditions, social and geographical mobility and citizenship. These migrants’ pains are caused by current restrictive migration controls, something the Dutch authorities could an…
The Enforcement of Offender Supervision in Europe: Understanding Breach Processes
"This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated. It is informed by and hopes to advance the research activities of the COST Action IS1106 on Offender Supervision in Europe, particularly the Action's work on developing new comparative methodologies to exam…
Comparing electronic monitoring regimes: Length, breadth, depth and weight equals tightness
This paper compares the use of electronic monitoring in three European jurisdictions – Belgium, England and Wales and the Netherlands. It suggests that rates of use, the accepted method of comparison in relation to imprisonment and a proxy measure of ‘punitiveness’ provide a misleading picture when applied to electronic monitoring. This paper transforms Crewe's concept of ‘tightness’ from a dimension of weight to encompass the overlapping element…
The pains of being unauthorized in the Netherlands
Ethnographic fieldwork amongst 105 unauthorized migrants in the Netherlands shows that unauthorized migrants suffer from the pains of being unauthorized. These migrants feel punished and are severely hurt by – amongst others – the deprivation of healthy and secure living conditions, social and geographical mobility and citizenship. These migrants’ pains are caused by current restrictive migration controls, something the Dutch authorities could an…
Where Two ‘Exceptional’ Prison Cultures Meet: Negotiating Order in a Transnational Prison
Can a prison in the Netherlands, that is neither ‘Dutch’ nor ‘Norwegian’, be ‘legitimate?’ What are the moral challenges? Our study of the controversial Norgerhaven project—a Norwegian prison located in the Netherlands—found that this ‘experiment’ generated one of the most reflexive, ‘deliberative’ prisons we have encountered. Officials involved in the decision assumed that the two jurisdictions were alike in their values. Few were prepared for t…
Privacy, promotionalism and the proliferation of state-performed criminal record screening in the Netherlands: How a restrictive legal framework can still result in a steep increase of criminal backgr…
The Netherlands has endorsed a unique system regarding the management, disclosure and screening of criminal records. Disclosure to third parties is strongly restricted, yet all (potential) employees can request a government agency to provide a risk assessment − known as a Certificate of Conduct (‘VOG’ in Dutch) − for every kind of employment application to determine whether they are fit for a given job. This article explains how and why this Dutc…
Lost in translation: The principle of normalisation in prison policy in Norway and the Netherlands
The principle of normalisation has gained more prominence in international prison law, with both the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules (UN SMR) and the European Prison Rules (EPR) promoting normalisation to the guiding principles. In general terms, normalisation refers to shaping life in prison in resemblance to life outside prison. However, it largely remains unclear what this principle entails for prison policy. The general formulation in t…
Probation and Parole in Europe
In this essay, we review uses of and developments in probation and parole in Europe, and consider the prospects for such sanctions. Our analysis reveals huge variation across European jurisdictions in the extent to which supervisory sanctions are used and in how their uses relate to the uses of imprisonment. We find evidence of very large expansions in the numbers of people under supervision in several European countries, but little or no evidenc…
Tackling debt problems in the criminal justice system: A study into the trajectories and bottlenecks of imposed financial requirements in the Netherlands
Research has shown how debt problems of individuals involved in the criminal justice system may hinder successful reintegration. In various jurisdictions, criminal law offers opportunities to support reducing debt problems, but insights into the experiences of tackling debt problems within a criminal law framework is limited. Using a qualitative research design, this study aims to understand considerations and implications of financial requiremen…
The Enforcement of Offender Supervision in Europe: Understanding Breach Processes
"This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated. It is informed by and hopes to advance the research activities of the COST Action IS1106 on Offender Supervision in Europe, particularly the Action's work on developing new comparative methodologies to exam…
Comparing electronic monitoring regimes: Length, breadth, depth and weight equals tightness
This paper compares the use of electronic monitoring in three European jurisdictions – Belgium, England and Wales and the Netherlands. It suggests that rates of use, the accepted method of comparison in relation to imprisonment and a proxy measure of ‘punitiveness’ provide a misleading picture when applied to electronic monitoring. This paper transforms Crewe's concept of ‘tightness’ from a dimension of weight to encompass the overlapping element…
The pains of being unauthorized in the Netherlands
Ethnographic fieldwork amongst 105 unauthorized migrants in the Netherlands shows that unauthorized migrants suffer from the pains of being unauthorized. These migrants feel punished and are severely hurt by – amongst others – the deprivation of healthy and secure living conditions, social and geographical mobility and citizenship. These migrants’ pains are caused by current restrictive migration controls, something the Dutch authorities could an…
Where Two ‘Exceptional’ Prison Cultures Meet: Negotiating Order in a Transnational Prison
Can a prison in the Netherlands, that is neither ‘Dutch’ nor ‘Norwegian’, be ‘legitimate?’ What are the moral challenges? Our study of the controversial Norgerhaven project—a Norwegian prison located in the Netherlands—found that this ‘experiment’ generated one of the most reflexive, ‘deliberative’ prisons we have encountered. Officials involved in the decision assumed that the two jurisdictions were alike in their values. Few were prepared for t…
Explaining the collapse of the prison population in the Netherlands: Testing the theories
Between 2005 and 2015 the Dutch prison population decreased by 44 percent. Such a rapid yet sustained reduction in the number of prisoners has no parallel in the Western world in this period. What are the factors that underlie this unique development? This article charts the decline of prisoner numbers in the Netherlands and considers areas that may account for it. It takes a systemic approach which considers publicly available data that has invo…
The effects of reward systems in prison: A systematic review
Lost in translation: The principle of normalisation in prison policy in Norway and the Netherlands
The principle of normalisation has gained more prominence in international prison law, with both the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules (UN SMR) and the European Prison Rules (EPR) promoting normalisation to the guiding principles. In general terms, normalisation refers to shaping life in prison in resemblance to life outside prison. However, it largely remains unclear what this principle entails for prison policy. The general formulation in t…
Privacy, promotionalism and the proliferation of state-performed criminal record screening in the Netherlands: How a restrictive legal framework can still result in a steep increase of criminal backgr…
The Netherlands has endorsed a unique system regarding the management, disclosure and screening of criminal records. Disclosure to third parties is strongly restricted, yet all (potential) employees can request a government agency to provide a risk assessment − known as a Certificate of Conduct (‘VOG’ in Dutch) − for every kind of employment application to determine whether they are fit for a given job. This article explains how and why this Dutc…
Tackling debt problems in the criminal justice system: A study into the trajectories and bottlenecks of imposed financial requirements in the Netherlands
Research has shown how debt problems of individuals involved in the criminal justice system may hinder successful reintegration. In various jurisdictions, criminal law offers opportunities to support reducing debt problems, but insights into the experiences of tackling debt problems within a criminal law framework is limited. Using a qualitative research design, this study aims to understand considerations and implications of financial requiremen…
Probation and Parole in Europe
In this essay, we review uses of and developments in probation and parole in Europe, and consider the prospects for such sanctions. Our analysis reveals huge variation across European jurisdictions in the extent to which supervisory sanctions are used and in how their uses relate to the uses of imprisonment. We find evidence of very large expansions in the numbers of people under supervision in several European countries, but little or no evidenc…
Why do detention rates rise or fall? A statistical and document analysis of the diverging Dutch and Belgian detention population trends between 2000 and 2020
Since 2005, detention rates in the Netherlands have decreased significantly, reversing prior growth. In contrast, neighbouring Belgium has experienced a substantial increase in its detention rates since the 1990s. By 2020 Belgium detained almost twice as many persons per 100,000 inhabitants as the Netherlands. The contrast between the two countries is striking as they are neighbouring countries with a partially shared history, language and crimin…
A Taste of Prison: A Study on the Relationship between Food Satisfaction and Experienced Severity of Imprisonment
This study explored the relationship between prison food satisfaction and experienced severity of imprisonment (ESI). Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to verify distinct food satisfaction aspects, and regression analyses were estimated to examine their association with ESI. The findings revealed a negative relationship between food satisfaction and ESI, particularly for satisfaction with food choice and variety, highlighting food as a …
There’s (no) accounting for taste: Identifying and predicting subgroups of incarcerated persons based on perceived food sufficiency and personal and lifestyle characteristics
BACKGROUND: In recent decades, research focus on prison climate and normalization has increased, highlighting food as a particularly important dimension of prison life. This has recently led to policy reforms in Western Europe, aimed at improving dietary quality, meeting incarcerated persons’ food needs, and supporting sustainability goals. Meeting food needs can benefit health, well-being, and the overall prison experience, however, little is kn…
Similar cases, different punishment: Case matching as a method for understanding differing detention population trends between the Netherlands and Belgium
This study examines the significant disparity in prison population trends between the Netherlands and Belgium over the past two decades. Using a unique qualitative case-matching approach, it compares 40 thoroughly matched criminal cases across four offence categories – theft and (violent) property offences, drug offences, sexual offences and homicide offences – to examine differences in sentencing and sentence implementation in both countries. Th…
Predictors of reward status in prison: Behaviour, motivation, and self-governance ability
Reward systems in prison are applied worldwide. In reward systems, the responsibility for behavioural reform is increasingly transferred from states to incarcerated individuals, as these individuals can earn a reward status by complying with institutional rules. The underlying assumption of such systems is that rewards promote motivation for compliance. Despite the large impact of (not) earning reward status on individual lives, it has seldomly b…
Sentencing in the Netherlands: The Role of Probation in a Miniaturized Sanction System
Despite immense recent growth in the Netherlands in sanctions that can replace short prison sentences, the proportion of people admitted to prisons is relatively high by European standards because of an increased focus on less severe crimes, combined with relatively high use of pretrial detention. Many community service orders and supervision orders are imposed by prosecutors and judges for relatively minor crimes. Therefore, many sentencing deci…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Prison (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Criminal justice (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)