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This article is a short report of a research about the "regime-allocation" in the Central Prison of Leuven (c.p.) Belgium. Based on an analysis of the literature on prison-sociology and an historical analysis of the evolution of the regime in the Belgian penitentiary system, the hypotheses is put forward that the discretionary process of "regime-allocation" is influenced by social and especially judicial typification of the inmates. During a period of 24 months, assignment and the acquiring of the basic infrastructural elements of the regime were observed in the every day life of 75 inmates. By this research we were able to prove the disparity of the regime-content and its cumulative structure. The prison population seems to be the subject of a variety of regimes, in which there are systematically significant cumulative relationships of favourable and unfavourable positions. External penitentiary factors (social and judicial typifications) have little or no weight on the process of "regime allocation".

School effectiveness and school improvement have different origins: School effectiveness is more directed to finding out "what works" in education and "why"; school improvement is practice and policy oriented and intended to change education in the desired direction. However, in their orientation to outcomes, input, processes, and context in education, they also have much in common. In the theoretical part, different orientations have been analysed and combined in a model for effective school improvement. Based on this analysis, an evaluation framework was developed for the analysis of the case studies of school improvement projects in the participating countries. The theoretical model and the results of the analyses of the case studies were combined in a framework of effective school improvement.

The authors discuss «judicial» policy-making in the seventies by such various actors as police authorities, local and national government, the Bar associations, legal aid agencies, the judiciary, and prison authorities. They stress the quasi-absence of reliable statistical information, of good annual reports, and of the minimum goodwill of the authorities that would open this area for social science research. They also analyse some of the major decisions that have been made by the Belgian department of justice in the last ten years.

Discussed is policy formation by such authorities as the police, local & national government, bar associations, legal aid agencies, the judiciary, & prison authorities. Emphasized is the quasi-absence of reliable statistical information, good annual reports, & the necessary cooperation of the authorities in opening this area for social science research. Major decisions of the Belgian Dept of Justice over the past ten years are analyzed. HA.