Lars Breuls

Lars Breuls obtained a Ph.D. fellowship of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), which allowed him to carry out ethnographic research in immigration detention in Belgium and in the Netherlands (October 2016 – September 2020). He succesfully defended his Ph.D. on immigration detention practices on 7 September 2020. He is now working as a postdoctoral researcher studying the decision-making practices of immigration officers. His research interests include practices of immigration control, penal and administrative decision-making, and practices of prison sentence implementation.
 

Research Line

Penality and Society 

Current research projects

Behavioral training in Flanders

The administrative power of (cr)immigration officers

Development and implementation of risk assessment and risk management within the houses of justice

Prosecutorial decision-making of the public prosecutor in the context of extended amicable settlement 

COURSES (2023-2024)

Penologie en Penitentiair Recht  

Penologie

Bronnen in de Criminologie

International Comparative Field Visit Study

Keywords

#immigration

#migration_control

#bordered_penality