The Biennial International Conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe addresses contemporary challenges in the field of criminal justice and security by encouraging the exchange of the latest views, concepts, and research findings from criminal justice and security studies among scientist, researchers, and practitioners from all over the globe. The aim of the conference is to highlight new ideas, theories, methods, and findings in a wide range of research and applied areas relating to policing, criminology, security issues, and social control issues. Conference strives for joint collaboration of different stakeholders in developing knowledge and experience that contribute to more secure and safe societies.
Starting in 1996 and reconvening for its twelfth session in 2018, the Conference has focused on and dealt with a good many topical areas such as, Comparing Firsthand Knowledge with Experience from the West (1996), Organisational, Managerial, and Human-Resource Aspects (1998), Ethics, Integrity, and Human Rights (2000), Deviance, Violence and Victimization (2002), Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice (2004), Past, Present and Futures (2006), Social Control in Contemporary Society – Practice and Research (2008), Social Control of Unconventional Deviance (2010), Contemporary Criminal Justice Practice and Research (2012), Understanding Professionalism, Trust and Legitimacy (2014), Safety, Security and Social Control in Local Communities (2016), and From Common Sense to Evidence-based Policy–making (2018). Hosting worldwide experts reaching far beyond the borders of Central and Eastern Europe, this event has earned a reputation of being an excellent criminological, criminal-justice-and-security, and critical social science conference on social control in modern society. As a rule, participants’ contributions are published, in English, on the NCJRS homepage and in scientific monographs.
Professor Gorazd Meško, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Professor Marcelo Aebi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Igor Bernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Dr. Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, USA
Dr. Leonidas Cheliotis, London School of Economics, UK
Professor Janina Czapska, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Dr. Algimantas Čepas, Law Institute of Lithuania, Lithuania
Professor Joseph F.Donnermeyer, Ohio State University, USA
Professor Gennady Esakov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Professor Charles B. Fields, Eastern Kentucky University, USA
Dr. Irena Cajner Mraović, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. Anna-Maria Getoš-Kalac, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Professor Jack Greene, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Professor Djordje Ignjatović, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dr. Andra-Roxana Ilie, University of Bucharest, Romania
Professor Ljubica Jelušič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Professor Susanne Karstedt, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Professor Klara Kerezsi, National University of Public Service, Hungary
Professor Nedžad Korajlić, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Professor Miklós Lévay, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Professor Michael Levi, Cardiff University, UK
Professor Mahesh Nalla, Michigan State University, USA
Professor Alida V. Merlo, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Elmedin Muratbegović, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Professor Borislav Petrović, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Professor Biljana Simeunović-Patić, University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies, Serbia
Professor Julian Roberts, University of Oxford, UK
Professor Ernesto Savona, Catholic University and Transcrime, Milan, Italy
Professor Wesley Skogan, Northwestern University, USA
Professor Nigel South, University of Essex, UK
Dr. Andrej Sotlar, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Dr. Justice Tankebe, University of Cambridge, UK
Professor Bojan Tičar, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Professor David Wall, Leeds University, UK
Professor Ralph Weisheit, Illinois State University, USA
Professor Bojan Dobovšek, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Bernarda Tominc, University of Maribor
Tatjana Bobnar, Ministry of Interior, Police, Slovenia
Dr. Rok Hacin, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Ivo Holc, Ministry of Interior, Police, SLovenia
Dr. Kaja Prislan, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Anita Bašelj, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Vanja Erčulj, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Tina Štrakl, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Barbara Erjavec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Aleksander Podlogar, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Andrej Rupnik, DCAF
1996
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.
1998
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.
2000
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.
2002
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.
2004
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.
2006
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).
2008
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.
2010
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.
2012
The ninth Policing in Central and Eastern Europe conference was renamed into Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe (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.
2014
The tenth conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe, subtitled Understanding Professionalism, Trust and Legitimacy was held in Ljubljana in September 2014. More than 100 participants form 17 countries attended the conference. Papers were published in Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, issues 2014/4, 2015/1 and 2015/2.
2016
The eleventh biennial conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe, subtitled Safety and Security and Social Control in Local Communities, was held in Ljubljana in September 2016. More than 100 participants from 18 countries attended the conference. Papers by 78 authors were published in conference proceedings, included in Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, and 13 papers by 34 authors were published in the Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology (Social Science Citation Index, Scopus etc.).
2018
The twelfth biennial conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe, subtitled From Common Sense to Evidence-based Policy–making, was held in Ljubljana in September 2018. More than 130 participants from 15 countries attended the conference. The conference consisted of two plenary sessions, thirteen thematic sections and two roundtables where more than 60 contributions were presented together. The main topics discussed at the conference were: activities of national and international institutions for ensuring the safety of the population, analyzes of changes in the strengthening of control mechanisms, regional cooperation for the prevention of current threats in the Western Balkans, the deprivation of assets of unlawful origin, etc. 55 papers were published in conference proceedings, and 4 papers were published in the Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology (Social Science Citation Index, Scopus etc.).
Gorazd Meško
Chairman of the Program Committee
e-mail: Gorazd.Mesko@fvv.uni-mb.si
phone: +386 1 300 8 328
Bojan Dobovšek
Chairman of the Organising Committee
e-mail: Bojan.Dobovsek@fvv.uni-mb.si
phone: +386 1 300 8 347
Bernarda Tominc
Secretary General
e-mail: Bernarda.Tominc@fvv.uni-mb.si
phone: +386 1 300 8 331