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The government aims to make the criminal justice chain operate more efficiently and improve the execution of sentences and measures. To achieve this, the Act amending the Enforcement of Criminal Law Decisions Act (USB Act) has been introduced. The USB Act amends the Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and some other laws in connection with a revision of the legal regulation of the enforcement of criminal law decisions. The direct responsibility for enforcement has been shifted from the Public Prosecution Service to the Minister for Legal Protection.
The main idea behind the law is that the minister will be better able to oversee the enforcement of sentences and measures. This is expected to lead to quicker and more effective enforcement of sentences, strengthening the position of victims and their relatives, providing good information to partners within and outside the criminal justice chain, and implementing a person-centred approach to enforcement. To enhance oversight of enforcement, the Central Fine Collection Agency (CJIB) will coordinate the execution of sentences from one central point: the Administration and Information Centre for the Execution Chain (AICE).
In collaboration with the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), we have developed a robust evaluation framework that can be used to measure in a robust manner, in a few years, the extent to which the goals of the programme and the USB Act have actually been achieved.
