CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND SECURITY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Conference at a Glance

The primary aim of the eleventh biennial Conference is to exchange the latest views, concepts, and research findings from criminal justice studies on safety, security, and social control in local communities among scientists, researchers, and practitioners from all over the globe. The conference will also highlight new ideas, theories, methods, and findings in a wide range of research/applied areas relating to policing, social control and criminal justice issues.

In the light of current challenges in local community safety/security management, security strategies ought to be driven not only by mainly subjective assessments of what does or does not work and/or what is promising in maintaining safe and secure communities, but also by knowledge, facts, and research expertise unveiling the factors of security problems.

Possible topics

• Relationships between local and national institutions of security/safety provision
• Centralisation and decentralisation
• Plural policing
• Crime and disorder in local communities
• Local policing in urban and rural areas
• Local crime prevention (social, developmental and situational)
• Local partnerships in crime prevention
• Local crime analysis
• Local/community surveys
• Fear of crime in local communities
• Community sanctions
• Community resilience
• Violence
• Extreme violence/extremism/radicalisation/terrorism
• Incivilities and anti-social behaviour
• Social exclusion
• Property crime
• Criminal investigation
• Traffic
• Alcohol and drug misuse
• Immigration and social cohesion