Report on the conference organized by the Dutch Group for the Study of the History of Crime and the Criminal Law, 16-18 May 1977.

The article provides information on a conference organized by the Dutch Group for the Study of the History of Crime and the Criminal Law held from May 16-17, 1977. The Dutch organizers brought together fifteen varied papers which attracted a large international audience to seminars at the Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Leiden in Netherlands. Altogether some fifty participants from different countries such as Netherlands, Belgium and France attended the event, among them historians, sociologists, legal historians and lawyers.