Co-editorship of a book in Bosnian, comprising papers from experts from former Yugoslavia on the topic of security and cooperation as a reaction to organised crime in this territory. Apart from national reports (analyses of the existing state of affairs regarding organised crime, perceived/actual safety, criminal organisations, reactions to crime etc.), the book includes in-depth analyses of a specific type of crime, particularly relevant for the state involved, and more theoretical papers, addressing the issue of security and organised crime from a more criminological and normative aspects.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 16183302In this introductory paper, which was presented under the awarded research fellowship of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (Sofia, 6 Nov 2008) and draw partly upon the research results of this postdoctoral project, we presented certain characteristics of the decreased trust or negative public opinion in the judiciary, stemming from the particularities of post-communist states and diminished security, brought about by the transition.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 28848173The paper, given at the annual criminological conference of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) in Bologna (26-29 Sept 2007), presented results of the content analysis of 168 articles, taken from British national press, dealing with the issue of the “anti-social” in the period from 1996 till 2006. Longitudinal changes in media representations of the anti-social as well as differences between newspapers were introduced.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1154894A plenary paper, presented at the 7th biennial international criminal justice conference (Ljubljana, 23 - 26 Sept 2008), identified and elaborated upon the following new tendencies of formal social control: (i) criminalisation of deviance in the form of anti-social behaviour through the civil law, (ii) criminalisation of deviance though the law on violations, and (iii) the penetration of legal paternalism and legal moralism as grounds for criminalisation into crime policy and criminal law.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 28847917Despite the decline in social trust in legal authorities, the public trust in the deterrent powers of the criminal law seems to be increasing, if anything can be deduced from the constant public cries for changes in criminal legislation (appealing for elevated sentences or criminalisation). The paper notes that criminalisation seems to be becoming the most popular way of tackling all sorts of socially unpleasant, albeit harmless, conduct, addresses the possible reasons for these phenomena and presents some other trends in the widening of the net of social control in the European crime policy.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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