Bonger Institute
[English publications and Dutch publications with English summaries are shown here.For a full overview of publications, please refer to the Dutch section of our website.]
Antenna Amsterdam monitors the capital's trends in the alcohol and drug market. Key themes for 2010 are: substance use among pubgoers, especially their alcohol consumption. The recovery of the ecstasy market. The blurring of the boundaries between what's hip and what's mainstream in nightlife. And the growth of an alternative nightlife circuit in Amsterdam. [DUTCH PUBLICATION WITH ENGLISH SUMMARY]
Benschop, A., Nabben, T., & Korf, D.J. (2011). Antenne 2010: Trends in alcohol, tabak en drugs bij jonge Amsterdammers. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
Butters, J., Harrison, L.D, Korf, D.J., Brochu, S. & Erickson, P.G (2011) The impact of violence on at-risk youth in Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands. Victims and Offenders, 6(4): 341-355.
[DOI: 10.1080/15564886.2011.607392]
Chevalier, D.A.M. (2011) There's no place in our space for you: The coming about of bans on gathering in public spaces. In: Eckardt, F. & Eade, J. (Eds.) The ethnically diverse city. Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, pp. 213-227.
Korf, D.J. (2011) Psychedelic musicians, Muslim dealers and domestic marihuana growers: an introduction. In: Fountain, J., Asmussen-Frank, V. & Korf, D.J. (Eds.) Markets, methods and messages: Dynamics in European drugs research. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, pp. 11-20.
One of the critical problems of drug policy is the issue of which methods and messages will be most effective in managing the drug market. These themes are addressed in this publication by the European Society of Social Drug research (ESSD). Authors of this book include social scientists from a range of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, anthropology and criminology.
Fountain, J., Asmussen-Frank, V. & Korf, D.J. (2011) Markets, methods and messages: Dynamics in European drugs research. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
Korf, D.J. (2011) Marihuana behind and beyond coffeeshops. In: Decorte, T., Potter G.R. & Bouchard, M. (Eds.) World wide weed. Global trends in cannabis cultivation and its control. Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 181-195.
The number of Romanians in the Netherlands has risen considerably since Romania entered the EU in 2007. A report about the actual number of Romanians in the Netherlands, their motives for migration, their position on the Dutch labour and housing market, their relationships, their contacts with native Dutch and countrymen, and their religious and cultural activities. The report also looks at problems that arise in the areas of exploitation, social conflict and crime.
Korf, D.J., Wesselink, K. & Perie, D. (2011) Romanians in the Netherlands. Forum Factsheet, March 2011.
Korf, D.J., Wouters, M. & Benschop, A. (2011) The return of the underground retail cannabis market? Attitudes of Dutch coffeeshop owners and cannabis users to the proposed ‘cannabis ID’ and the consequences they expect. Bonger International Bulletin, 1(1): 1-4.
Liebregts, N., Van der Pol, P., Benschop, A., Van Laar, M., De Graaf, R., Van den Brink, W. & Korf, D.J. (2011) Cannabis dependence and peer selection in social networks of frequent users. Contemporary Drug Problems, 38(1): 93-119.
Nabben, T., Benschop, A. & Korf, D.J. (2011) Trends and patterns in licit and illicit drug use in Amsterdam nightlife, 2010. Bonger International Bulletin.1(2): 1-4.
Community service punishments in the Netherlands are given to both adult and youthful offenders. They serve their sentences either individually or in groups and at a variety of locations. This evaluation study deals solely with offenders of minor age (12 to 17) who carry out community punishments ‘in the neighbourhood’. Our primary focus is on how the offenders experience their punishments. [DUTCH PUBLICATION WITH ENGLISH SUMMARY]
Nabben, T., Doekhie, J., Korf, D.J. & Everartz, M. (2011) Beleving van werkstraf in de buurt door jeugdigen. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
Van der Pol, P., Liebregts, N., De Graaf, R., Korf, D.J., Van den Brink, W. & Van Laar, M. (2011) The Dutch Cannabis Dependence (CanDep) study on the course of frequent cannabis use and dependence: objectives, methods and sample characteristics. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 20(3): 169-181.
[DOI: 10.1002/mpr.345]