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Reviews official statistical data & discusses the underlying causes & implications of recent changes in the Dutch penal system. In the postwar decades leading up to the 1990s, the system was frequently regarded as an ideal system of humanitarian paternalism favoring rehabilitation over control & incarceration. Welfare, health care, & other community agencies sought crime prevention through education & social support, prison sentences were short, & prison time was made as educational & rehabilitative as possible. However, in the last decade the rationale of repressive social control has overwhelmed the system. In response to an eroding welfare system, pressure to conform to European Union standards, & the global replacement of moral issues with managerial & bureaucratic concerns, Dutch officials have increasingly called for more strict & repressive social control. Under these circumstances, repression has replaced education & humanity, & morality has disappeared from the discourse on social organization. However, the justifications for a more repressive system are at best questionable, & it is concluded that these changes are a response to an external & unassociated ideological shift rather than a move toward a more just & beneficial penal system. 1 Table, 24 References. T. Sevier