What crimes/offences are most common in The Netherlands?

Damaging of cars:
Teens think that it's cool to damage cars or other vehicles. I don't know why they like to do that - maybe because it feels good destroying something? I've, luckily, never seen it and I hope I will never see it, too.

Bicycle theft:
The Dutch people love cycling, we even have special roads for cyclers. People, most probably, steal bikes because they don't have one or they see one standing there without any locks on it, or, they see a very expensive bike.

Among the top 10 crimes, there are also some more serious crimes, such as sexual offenses. For example, in The Netherlands there are frequently rapes, or gang rapes. This is, of course, horrible. Also there is breaking in and abusing in the top 10 crimes in The Netherlands.

Crime and Punishment

Different offenses should have different punishments. What about these here?

• Shoplifting
• Breaking into a car
• Picking a fight
• Drink driving
• Driving under the influence of drugs
• Solvent abuse
• Urinating against a wall
• Doing a paper round at the age of 11
• Shouting racist abuse
• Being sold alcohol in a bar whilst under the age limit


All of these offenses are crimes. The only exception might be the paper round under the age eleven. In this case, the person who commits the crime would be the person who employs the kid under the age of eleven.

I don't think any of them are victim less, but of course, this could be argued against. There could always be a consequence of the crime committed.

Some committers of these offenses could be thrown into jail, for example, if you break into a car, or shoplift. Others might get away with a fine, like drink driving or driving under the influences of drugs. It actually depends on how heavy the crime is committed. For example, if you were heavily drunk while you were driving, you might be thrown in jail or have a very heavy fine.

I'd say that the person who commits the crime several times should be getting heavier punishment than the punishment before. Each time it should be intensified.

Feedback. What the hell is it?

Feedback is your opinion on someone’s work, both good and bad. It is important to have feedback on the things you do because you learn from it. With feedback you can improve your weaknesses to improve the things you do. Good feedback helps us in learning, as I said above, because we find out what our weaknesses are and learn to improve our things.

The impacts of good feedback are that you’ll be able to learn from them and improve yourself while with bad feedback you can’t really do anything. Also it can bring down someone’s self esteem and really hurt people.


I watched this video about blogging used by students and a teacher on a certain school/collage (whatever they are learning in) and they explained that using the blogs, the students would be able to see their progress and reflecting on them. Also they could see the progress of other students and help them with things they don't understand or ask other students to help. They also said that all the criticism they get from the teachers and students helps them improve themselves. As well as that the blogs they created helped them understand the things they needed to learn more. The students also post comments on each others work that they would've probably never said to each other face-to-face. I agree with the lady talking about how blogging is good for feedback because, come on, aren't we all scared of what people might say of our work?


This would be an example of bad feedback:

I mean, I said I loved the song but didn't explain what exactly I loved. Did I love the lyrics? Their musical talent?

This, however would probably be a good feedback:

Here I explained what I liked about the post and how she could improve it. I also had a little bit of humour in it in order to make it more casual and friendly. Come on, no-one likes stern criticism.

I think I have been trying to give good feedback. I always try to include at least one positive point and one negative point.