Impact performs various types of research. Literature studies and ex-ante, process and effect evaluations. Our team is experienced in both quantitative and qualitative research. We are proficient at rapid but extensive international literature studies that result in applicable insights. An overview is found below.
 
Juvenile Criminology:

  • Study of the execution of the Dutch “Behavior Affecting Measure”. Commissioned by the WODC (2015-2016).
  • Study of the Dutch “Behavior Affecting Measure” for juvinile offenders. Commissioned by the Dutch Board for Judicial Youth Policy of the Ministry of Security and Justice (2014).
  • Process evaluation of the network and process deliberations for juvenile offender aftercare. Commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice (2012-2013).
  • Study of the approach of problematic juvenile gangs. In cooperation with Significant BV. Commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice (2012-2013).
  • Evaluation “ZSM-youth”. Commissioned by of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice (2011).
  • Evaluation of an aggression regulation training for high school students in Amsterdam, Haarlem and Rotterdam. Commissioned by the WODC (2009-2011).

 

Adult criminology:

  • Planning, process and effect evaluation of the training “Choose for Change”. Commissioned by the WODC (2015-2016).
  • Study of the measure ‘Systematic Offenders Facility’ for young adults. Commissioned by the Ministry of Security and Justice (2014).
  • Participation in the EU COST project on probation supervision. Working Group ‘perceptions of offenders’. Subsidized by the EU (2012-2016).
  • Evaluation of the “Choose for Change” training for detainees. Commissioned by the Judicial Service Establishments (2013).
  • Process evaluation of the pilot “Threat Management”. In cooperation with Maastricht University. Commissioned by the Scientific Research Centre of the department of Justice (WODC) (2012-2013).
  • Consultancy on the process evaluation of the individual behavioral training “Solo”. Commissioned by the Dutch Probation Service (2011-2012).
  • Evaluation of the Dutch national policy for the approach of domestic violence from 2002-2011. In cooperation with Significant. Commissioned by the WODC (2010-2011).
  • Study of the implementation of supervision and control by the Dutch police. In cooperation with the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Commissioned by Police & Science (2010-2011).
  • Evaluation of the utility of protocols for Dutch probation officers. Commissioned by the Dutch Probation Service (2010-2011).
  • Process evaluation of the new budgeting method for Dutch adult offenders. Commissioned by the Dutch Probation Service (2010).
  • Evaluation of the new method for case management of the Dutch Probation Service. Commissioned by the WODC (2008-2009).
  • Evaluation of the counseling component of new probation supervision. Commissioned by the WODC (2009).

 

Forensic care:

  • Actualisation of the Mission and Vision Document of Sustainable Residency in Duurzaam Verblijf Beilen (2013). (in press)
  • Quickscan and literature study of the effects of payments for mental health care on patient entry in forensic care. Commissioned by the Dutch Prison Organisation (2012).
  • International literature study of the operating mechanisms in health care for offender with severe psychiatric pathology. Commissioned by the Dutch Prison Organisation (2012).
  • Development of research programs for Penitentiary Psychiatric Centers. Commissioned the Dutch Department of Judicial Organisations(2011-2012).
  • International comparison of instruments and procedures for risk assessment for offender leave in the Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, and Denmark. Commissioned by the WODC (2011-2012).
  • Plan and process evaluation of prison staff training in ‘Verbal Judo’. Commissioned by the WODC (2007).
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    Various:

  • Study of the risk factors for people who are at danger of being evicted from their homes in the city of Utrecht. Commissioned by the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Scientific Department of Social Care (2008).
  • Inventarisation of the possibilities for international knowledge exchange between probation services. Commissioned by the Conference Permanente Européenne de la Porbation (CEP) (2007).