Leiden University Student Repository

Schuddeboom, Willem Misha (2021)

Drones and Helicopters: Neighbourhood Watches in the 21th Century: Legitimacy in Proactive Neighbourhood Watches: A Case Study of Kootwijkerbroek and Neder-Betuwe

Bachelor thesis | Security Studies (BSc)

Neighbourhood watches are not uncommon in the Netherlands. However, it is not common for them to take a proactive stance and detain and pursue suspects. The aim of this paper wasto discover the issues of legitimacy of proactive neighbourhood watches in the Netherlands. To do this a case-study of the well-known proactive neighbourhood watches in the Netherlands, Kootwijkerbroek and Neder-Betuwe, was conducted. First, the two networks were analysed using Whelan’s (2015) five levels of analysis. Second, the neighbourhoodwatches are tested along the lines of democratic, legal and social legitimacy. As a result, it became apparent that the proactive neighbourhood watches struggle on all fronts of legitimacy, except local social legitimacy.

Neighbourhood Watch

Proactive

Kootwijkerbroek

Neder-Betuwe

Legitimacy

Citizen’s Arrest

Author

Schuddeboom, Willem Misha

Faculty

Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

Supervisors

Niculescu-Dinca, V. (Dr.)

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en