about conference
The primary aim of the ninth biennial conference is to exchange views, concepts, and research findings among scientists, researchers, and practitioners from the broad area of criminal justice practice, research and developent thereof in the last two decades. The conference will highlight new ideas, theories, methods, and findings in a wide range of research and applied areas relating to criminal justice issues.
possible topics
Perspectives on Professionalism, Trust and Legitimacy
- Democratic criminal justice and security provision
- Professionalization of police, prosecution, courts
- Institutional capacity, crime and clear-up rates
- Public satisfaction with criminal justice
- Trust in police, prosecution and courts
- Legitimacy of police, prosecution and courts
- Legitimacy of crime prevention initiatives
- Self-legitimacy of criminal justice professionals
- Democratization of processes in criminal justice and security provision
Criminal justice and civil society
- Citizen initiatives
- Non-governmental organizations
- Marginalized social groups
- Migrants
- Criminal justice and research communities
- Journalists – reporting about criminal justice
- Interconnectedness of criminal justice and security policies
Police and policing
- Challenges of contemporary policing
- Community safety, community policing and crime prevention
- Problem oriented policing
- Zero tolerance policing
- Intelligence-led policing
- Undercover policing
- Plural policing (state, local and private; national and international; hybrid)
- Policing public disorder in sport and other events
- Policing public protests
- International police cooperation
Prosecution
- Professionalization of prosecution
- Cooperation of prosecution with other CJ agencies
- International prosecutorial cooperation
- Specialists vs. generalists
Courts
- Effectiveness and efficiency of courts
- Dealing with specific cases (organized crime, white collar crime, consumer fraud, crimes against the environment, etc.)
- Sentencing
- Alternative penal sanctions
- Court security
- Expert witnesses
Prisons
- Social climate in prisons
- Public – private partnerships
- Privatization of prisons
- Prison overcrowding
Criminal justice education and training
- Police officers
- Prosecutors
- Judges and court staff
- Prison officers and other prison staff
- Training for crime prevention
- Joint trainings of criminal justice professionals
- University programmes in criminal justice, security and criminology
- Trust in and legitimacy of policing in criminal justice education and training
