According to Ghent University criminology researcher Dayle Harvey, we still focus too much on visible figureheads in criminal networks. “The most crucial connection isn't always found at the top.”
Why is one neighbourhood more prone to crime than the next? Can crime be predicted and prevented? Those are the questions that professor Wim Hardyns decided to tackle seventeen years ago.
Imagine if we locked up fewer people, or if there were no longer any prisons at all. Would that lead to more crime or, on the contrary, produce greater equality and security? An intriguing issue criminologist Tom Vander Beken loves to ponder.
