Research project
Life in Custody Study (LIC)
The Life in Custody (LIC) Study comprises a large-scale research project into prison climate and the quality of prison life in Dutch prisons.
- Duration
- 2016 - 2024
- Contact
- Esther van Ginneken
- Funding
- Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen and Leiden University
The English website is currently under construction. For more information, see the Dutch website.
Team
Team Members
- Dr. Esther van Ginneken (project lead)
- Sophie Martens, MSc. (PhD researcher)
- Francesca van Ravenstein (PhD researcher)
- Iris Müller (PhD researcher)
- Femke Roggeband (researcher)
Former Team Members
- Prof.dr. Paul Nieuwbeerta (projectleider 2016 – 2025)
- Dr. Hanneke Palmen (projectleider 2016 – 2025)
- Dr. Anouk Bosma (projectleider 2016 – 2019)
- Dr. Karin Beijersbergen (senior onderzoeker 2016)
- Dr. Jan Maarten Elbers, MSc. (2020-2024 PhD)
- Dr. Amanda Pasma, MSc. (2017-2023 datamanager en PhD)
- Ellen de Jong, MSc. (2018-2019 onderzoeker)
- Dr. Maria Berghuis, MSc. (2016-2023 PhD en postdoc)
A. Visitation in Dutch Prisons
B. Heterogeneity of Visitation in Dutch Prisons
C. Contact between prisoners and re-integration-professionals in Dutch prisons
Research Output
Articles
2023
2022
- The effects of reward systems in prison: A systematic review
- How do Visit Facilitation and Accessibility of Prisons Relate to Visits from Professionals and Volunteers?
- The role of prison climate and work climate in understanding subjective safety among correctional staff
- Do prisoners with reintegration needs receive relevant professioal assistance?
- Visitation patterns and post-release offending: exploring variations in the timing, rate and consistency of prison visits
- Is there a relationship between prison conditions and recidivism?
- Visitation Enablers and Barriers: Evaluating the Influences of Practical, Relational, and Experiential Factors on Visitation in Dutch Prisons
- Receiving Visits and the Relative Timing of Inmates’ Infractions: Investigations into how Inmates’ Behavior Change Before and After Visits in Dutch Prisons
2021
- Het contact tussen gedetineerden en interne en externe re-integratieprofessionals in Nederlandse penitentiaire inrichtingen.
- Receiving visits in prison and aggressive and contraband misconduct among Dutch prisoners
- De prevalentie en determinanten van bezoek van partners, kinderen, familie en vrienden aan Nederlandse gedetineerden: de rol van sociale netwerkkenmerken en criminele geschiedenis
- Straffen en belonen in detentie. Een planevaluatie van het Nederlandse systeem van Promoveren en Degraderen
2020
- A New Instrument to Measure Prison Climate: The Psychometric Quality of the Prison Climate Questionnaire
- Climate Consensus: A multilevel study testing assumptions about prison climate
- Unhappy staff, unhappy prisoners? The relation between work climate and prison climate in Dutch prisons
- Examining Prisoner Misconduct: A Multilevel Test Using Personal Characteristics, Prison Climate, and Prison Environment
- Bezoek in Nederlandse gevangenissen
2019
- Het leefklimaat in Nederlandse penitentiaire inrichtingen: de Life In Custody–studie
- Bearing the Weight of Imprisonment: The Relationship Between Prison Climate and Well-Being
- Social Organization in Prison: A Social Network Analysis of Interpersonal Relationships among Dutch prisoners
2018
Factsheets
- Factsheet Life in Custody (Dutch)
- Factsheet Misbehavior (Dutch)
- Factsheet Socal Networks (Dutch)
- Factsheet Wellbeing (Dutch)
- Factsheet Supervision (Dutch)
- Factsheet Visit (Dutch)
- Factsheet Work Environment and Living Environment (Dutch)
- Factsheet Determinants (Dutch)
- Factsheet Visit, Aggression and Contrabande (Dutch)
- Factsheet Reward system in prison (Dutch)
- Factsheet Prison Conditions and Recidivism (Dutch)
- Factsheet Timing, Frequency and Consistency of Visits during Detention and Recidivism (Dutch)
- Factsheet Multiple-person Cell Use in Dutch Prisons (Dutch)