The first biennial Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference, subtitled »Comparing Firsthand Knowledge with Experience from the West«, took place in November 1996. It gathered eighty-two authors from twenty-three countries from five continents. Sixty-four papers were published in a conference proceeding Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparing Firsthand Knowledge with Experience from the West. The conference proceedings were fully published on the NCJSR web page.
The second Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference, subtitled »Organizational, Managerial, and Human Resource Aspects«, took place in November 1998. Eighty authors from seventeen countries presented their papers at the conference. Fifty-three papers were published in a conference proceeding Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Organizational, Managerial, and Human Resource Aspects.
The third Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference, subtitled »Ethics, Integrity, and Human Rights«, took place in September 2000. Eighty-two authors from twenty countries presented fifty papers. The papers were published a conference proceeding Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Ethics, Integrity, and Human Rights.
The fourth Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference, subtitled »Deviance, Violence and Victimization«, took place in September 2002. Eighty authors from sixteen countries presented sixty papers. The papers were published in a conference proceeding Policing in Central and Eastern Europe – Deviance, Violence and Victimization.
The fifth Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference, subtitled »Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice« took place in September 2004. Ninety-three authors presented over a hundred papers. A conference proceeding Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice was fully published at the NCJSR web page.
The sixth Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference, subtitled »Past, Present and Futures« took place in September 2006. Around hundred papers were presented at the conference. A selection of the best papers was published in a special issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security and in an edited book Policing in Emerging Democracies – Critical Reflections (2007).
The seventh Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference, subtitled »Social Control in Contemporary Society – Practice and Research« was held in September 2008. Around seventy participants presented more than hundred papers. A graduate student session was introduced to the conference for the first time. A selection of the best papers was published in the Policing – An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, issue 3, 2009 and in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security.
The eighth Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference, subtitled »Social Control of Unconventional Deviance« was held in September 2010. Around hundred participants presented ninety-eight papers. Plenary papers were published in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, issue 2010/4. Other papers were published in a peer reviewed conference proceeding Social Control of Unconventional Deviance and in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, issue 2011/2.
The ninth Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference was renamed into Criminal Justice and Security (subtitled Contemporary Criminal Justice Practice and Research). The conference was held in Ljubljana in September 2012. Ninety participants presented eighty-eight papers. Papers were published in a conference proceeding, Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, issue 2013/2, and Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo (Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology), issue 2013/3.