Posted By: Career Enrichment Network

One of the college’s most popular faculty led study abroad programs is, The Netherlands: Dutch Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective. This program will take place during the month of July. Students are required to enroll in 6 credits of CRIMJ 499, European Criminal Justice.

This program is designed to introduce students to concepts of crime and punishment in the Netherlands and to provide an opportunity for direct exposure to a system very different from our own. The students will observe Dutch ideology and practice in the design, rationale, and implementation of criminal justice. The Dutch society has a long-standing tradition of tolerance, diversity, and consensus-based politics. This translates into a specific approach toward crime and justice issues that is known around the world. Examples of this approach can be seen in various fields, such as the legalization of prostitution, the legalization of soft drugs, the medical instead of criminal justice approach toward hard drugs, and the way in which issues like juvenile crime, euthanasia, and gay marriage are dealt with.

Experience a first-hand view of what it’s like to study on Amsterdam, Netherlands: Dutch Criminal Justice. Created in cooperation with the 2013 participants, the YouTube clip titled, “Deep Down Under“,  delves deep into the nitty-gritty topics students study in Amsterdam.

For more information about this program, please contact Howie Smith  in the College of the Liberal Arts.  You may also schedule an appointment with the education abroad adviser for this program.

Applications are open for this Summer 2016 and are due on February 1, 2016. All Liberal Arts students studying abroad are eligible for Enrichment Funding. To learn more, please schedule an appointment via Network Symplicity or email Jackie Smith, Global Experiences Coordinator (jds54@psu.edu)