About the Conference
Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia,
is pleased to announce the Seventh Biennial International Conference "Policing in Central and
Eastern Europe: Social Control in Contemporary Society – Practice and Research" to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24-26, 2008.
Possible topics
- Forms of social control
- Formal, informal and institutionalised informal social control
- Modes of control in contemporary society
- Reporting crime
- Factors of effective and efficient criminal investigation
- Policing and crime prevention - modes of policing
- Changes in policing styles
- Provision of safety and security (national, regional and local level)
- Interdepartmental cooperation in crime control and crime prevention
- Crime control policies and their implications
- Crime control strategies
- Developments in crime prevention
- Cascade events and security awareness
- Contemporary trends in social control
- Crime control – between ideas and implementation
- Crime prevention – ideology of ‘soft control’?
- Primary, secondary and tertiary crime prevention
- Relations between repression and prevention
- Transfer of crime control and crime prevention ideas
- International cooperation in fields of crime control and crime prevention
- NGOs and crime prevention
- Private policing and crime prevention
- Plural policing and provision of safety
- Multiethnic policing
- Post-conflict policing
- Prevention of hate crimes
- Responses on terrorism
- Wars on crime and their implications
- Prevention of specific criminal offences
- European crime control policies
- National crime control policies
- Good practices in crime control and crime prevention
- Prevention of repeat victimization
- Private and public security services
- Safety isues
- Social control practices
- Research of social control
