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<strong>Child</strong> PornograPhy First report oF the Dutch NatioNal rapporteur
Research method
For the purpose of this research and with support from the youth care organisation Jeugdzorg Nederland,
BNRM approached all access managers of the 21 AMKs in the Netherlands and the Stichting Gereformeerd
Jeugdwelzijn Amersfoort 1 [Foundation for Dutch Reformed Church Youth Welfare Amersfoort] and requested
them to complete the set of questions stated above. The following 18 AMKs responded to this
request: Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Flevoland, Utrecht, Noord-Holland,
Rotterdam Noordoever, Haaglanden, Zuid-Holland, West-Brabant, Midden-Brabant, Zuidoost-Brabant,
Noordoost-Brabant – Den Bosch, Noordoost-Brabant – Oss/Uden, Noord- and Midden-Limburg and
Zuid-Limburg. The Noord- and Midden-Limburg and Zuid-Limburg AMKs completed one set of questions
between them, meaning that the research is based on 17 completed sets of questions, which are
considered representative of all AMKs in the Netherlands.
2 The Public Prosecution Service data and Investigation & Research
and Policy Database for Judicial Documentation study
Research method
The information in §3.5.4.1, §3.5.4.2 and §3.5.4.4 is based on data from the Public Prosecution Service;
this is the national pool of data that contains information from the district court public prosecutor’s
offices and courts about the prosecution and trial of suspects and convicted perpetrators in
the first instance. The total pool of data from the Public Prosecution Service enables the cases to be
selected in which (amongst others) the offence of child pornography has been recorded (Article 240b
of the Dutch Criminal Code). The secondary analyses of the subcategory of data concerning ‘child
pornography’ were carried out by the Statistical Information and Policy Analysis Division [Statistische
Informatie en Beleidsanalyse (SIBA)] of the Research and Documentation Centre [Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-
en Documentatiecentrum (WODC)]. This also applies to the information derived from the Research and
Policy Database for Judicial Documentation (§3.5.4.3). The Research and Policy Database for Judicial
Documentation is a database intended for academic research, and the development and monitoring
of policy. The database is updated periodically with information from the Criminal Records System
[Justitieel Documentatiesysteem (JDS)].
Comments regarding the statistics
It is possible that the data presented in §3.5.4 originating from the subcategory of data concerning ‘child
pornography’ does not concern all individuals suspected and convicted of child pornography offences.
In individual cases, it is sometimes the case that when charges are made for multiple offences, only
the first offence is registered in the Public Prosecution Service records. 2 In addition to this, data from
the Public Prosecution Service is not up to date and is therefore incomplete, in particular with regard
1 This is not an AMK, but a Christian youth care organisation that operates nationally. In exactly the same
way as AMKs, it provides a point of contact for youth care (in this case: Christian youth care) and was
therefore also included in this research.
2 Incidentally: only primary offences for which charges are made are included in data recorded by the
Public Prosecution Service. However, considering the fact that it is highly unlikely that a charge is made
for an offence relating to child pornography as an alternative to another criminal offence, this is not
important for the child pornography offences that have been recorded.