About the Journal

The Journal of Criminal Justice and Security is a scientific magazine fostering interdisciplinary discussion and exchange of findings in the field of safety and security studies. In its effort to shed light on legal, organisational, criminological, politological, sociological, psychological, and criminal-policy aspects of security-relevant concepts and phenomena, it facilitates a deeper understanding of the roles and the functioning of society, organisations, and individuals cooperating in the provision of security.

As such, the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security covers the following thematic areas:

  • theoretical foundations of safety and security,
  • organisation and management of security mechanisms,
  • combating criminality,
  • policing,
  • private security,
  • intelligence and security, and
  • information security.

Journal of Criminal Justice and Security publishes articles written in Slovene and English.

Articles in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security are abstracted and indexed in Criminology Collection (ProQuest), Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO) and Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO).

Journal of Criminal Justice and Security is an open-access journal, published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0.

Publishing Ethics

All the articles submitted to the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security (Varstvoslovje) are peer reviewed by two anonymous peer reviewers. Editors of the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security adhere to the publication ethics and malpractice policies as outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for journal editors.

Editors & Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Andrej Sotlar, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

Editor of Slovene Articles

Andrej Sotlar, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

Editors of English Articled

Maja Modic, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Technical Editors

Ada Mendragič, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Tina Štrakl, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

International Editorial Board

Marcelo Aebi, University of Laussane, Laussane, Switzerland
Igor Areh, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Hans-Juergen Albrecht, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany
Branko Ažman, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Goran Basic, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
Igor Bernik, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Tore Bjørgo, Norwegian Police University College, Oslo, Norway
Gleb Bogush, Moscow State University – Lomonosov, Moscow, Russia
Hans Boutellier, Verwey-Jonker Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Aleš Bučar-Ručman, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Jiří Buriánek, Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic
Bojan Dobovšek, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Ioan Durnescu, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Katja, Eman, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Chris Eskridge, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA
Benjamin Flander, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Peter Grabosky, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Beata Z. Gruszczyńska, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Alistair Henry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Tim Hope, Keele University, Keele, UK
Djordje Ignjatović, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Zoran Kanduč, Institute of Criminology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Klara Kerezsi, National Institute of Criminology, Budapest, Hungary
Krysztof Krajewski, Jagelonian University, Krakow, Poland
Gary LaFree, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Rene Levy, GERN, Guyancourt, France
Tomaš Loveček, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovak Republic
Alida V. Merlo, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA
Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mahesh Nalla, Michigan State University, East Lansing. MI, USA
Tinkara Pavšič Mrevlje, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Borislav Petrović, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, B&H
Paul Ponsaers, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Iztok Prezelj, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Amedeo Recasens i Brunet, CESDIP, Paris, France
Bojan Tičar, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Andromachi Tseloni, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Gregor Urbas, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Peter Wetzels, Institute of Criminology, Hamburg, Germany
Sabina Zgaga Markelj, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia