Peters, Dr Laura

Laura Peters is Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Faculty of Law. She specializes in Dutch criminal law and criminal procedure, human rights (ECHR), comparative criminal law, and subversive crime. Her main research concerns the study of criminal law and criminal procedure in the Netherlands and abroad. Peters is especially interested in the possibilities of increasing the effectiveness of criminal proceedings. The problems surrounding subversive crime form the starting point for this. Peters studies innovations in foreign penal systems to see how we can improve the Dutch criminal justice system. One of the subjects that she researches is the Italian approach to tackling the Mafia. According to Peters, the Netherlands can benefit from the Italian anti-Mafia legislation in order to better fight organized crime.

Previously in the news (mainly in Dutch)

• What did Cabinet advisor Laura Peters learn from the Italian approach to the Mafia?
• Forming a united Dutch front against organized crime
• Travel idea: visit your local court
• Research: Italian approach to the Mafia partly useful for the Netherlands
• The Dutch Supreme Court approves ‘deals’ between Public Prosecution Service and lawyers.
• Arrest of lawyer Weski is quite unique to the Netherlands
• Public Prosecution Service makes deals with suspects, but no legislation is in place for this yet.
• Justice system failure in mega-trial against drug gang from Eastern Netherlands
• Laura Peters on the fight against crime through comparative law
• Quickly implement the Italian approach to the Mafia
• Criminal cases could take less time if The Hague shows guts

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