Research institutes
Maastricht Institute for Criminal Sciences
Located at one of the top law faculties in Europe MICS is brings together international staff from different academic and professional backgrounds such as law, forensic psychology and criminology. The multidisciplinary research focusses on crime, criminal law and criminal justice systems combining a legal comparative approach with a social scientific methodology. Our staff teaches in a variety of bachelor and master courses both in Dutch and English. MICS is involved in numerous international academic and research networks.
Fast facts
- multidisciplinary and international research on crime, criminal law and its impact on societies
- integrating legal research and legal practice
- teaching in criminal law, criminology, psychology and forensics
- research and education comprises law in the books as well as law in action
Research
Research at MICS is multidisciplinary and covers fields of criminal law, criminology, psychology, neurosciences and forensics. Apart from studying the law in the books and the law in action, the normative, cognitive and operational assumptions that underlie criminal policies and law making are at the core of our research. Contemporary challenges posed by crime are no longer limited to the nation state but require a multidisciplinary and global analytical framework. Shifting paradigms within criminal justice systems broadened the view from the nation state over the cross-border and European level all up to the international level and cyberspace.
MICS conducts cutting-edge research on three main focus-themes:
- Quality standards for criminal justice systems
- Additional and alternative responses to criminal justice
- International cooperation in criminal matters.
MICS’s research takes place in the following four out of five pillars:
1. Global Justice
2. Institutional Transformations
3. Globalising Markets
4. Cross-border Cooperation and Mobility
5. Law and Technology
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Germany has elected a new government. One of the legal reforms coalition of Social democrats, the Green party and the free liberals want to put on the tracks is the legalization of cannabis. From a criminological point of view, this is the right decision.
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On the 9 th of February, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled that forcing suspects to provide access to their smartphone with a fingerprint is not a breach of the privilege against self-...
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Dr. Aletta Jacobs is, in ieder geval voor de meeste Nederlanders, de belichaming van vrouwenrechten en gelijkheid. Maar hoeveel weet je nou écht van deze beroemde feministe? En waarom hebben we een onderwijsruimte naar deze vrouw vernoemd?
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The very recent ruling of the CJEU in DK (C-653/19 PPU, 28 November 2019) came to verify two quite depressing suspicions about the current status of European criminal law. First, Directive 2016/343 on the presumption of innocence remains an instrument with staggeringly limited applicability...
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National laws or ‘legal traditions’ are not the main obstacle to realising the ideal of ‘effective legal assistance’ embedded in the EU procedural rights’ Directives. The resistance to realising this ideal originates mainly from the professional cultures of relevant actors, including criminal...
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