Samenvatting

In recent years especially organized crime caused political unrest regarding the criminal justice system. In order to help safeguard the delicate balance between due process and crime control, this article advocates more systematic reflection on dilemmas in police work and criminal justice in general. In order to conceptually clarify this, the concept of reflexivity has been used. This article was based on an empirical study of the opinions of police officers, public prosecutors and criminal judges on the functioning of the criminal justice system.