Ljubljana, Slovenia | September 26-27, 2016
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Keynote speeches
Chair: Branko Lobnikar
Researching safety and security in local communities in Slovenia – a brief overview and future research challenges
New roles and functions of the police and armed forces in security provision in contemporary security and political environment
Plenary 1 – Local safety and security – prevention, community policing and partnership
Chair: Branko Lobnikar
Social crime prevention in urban municipalities in Slovenia
Community policing strategy in Croatia: What do we know and what do we not know after 15 years of implementation?
Municipal police in the Republic of Serbia
The role of local prevention councils in prevention of socio-pathological phenomena in the city of Skopje
Plenary 2 – Community policing
Chair: Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich
Does community policing matter for police integrity?
Community policing in Serbia: Between tradition and contemporary challenges
The quality of community policing in multicultural municipalities, divided by national border
Plenary 3 – Municipal policing
Chair: László Christian
Local governmental law enforcement in Hungary
The media images of Poland’s municipal guards
Panel 1 – Security, risk and crime analysis
Chair: Katja Eman
Examining risk as a political construct: The impact of changing views of the prevailing threats to public safety on the definition of risk
Crime and crime prevention at Krasnodar Krai tourist resorts: Regional specificities and activities of the law enforcement agencies
Crime mapping in the Republic of Macedonia
Combination of property crime hot spot analysis and situational crime prevention methods – A case study of Ljubljana
Trends in the criminality and victimization of the elderly
Panel 2 – Policing, community policing and crime
Chair: Irena Cajner Mraović
Policing high risk domestic violence victims and offenders
The policing of public protests in Gauteng, South Africa
The community policing evaluation survey in the flooded Croatian areas
Community coordinated response to child sex trafficking: Insights from process and outcome evaluations
Policing on the surveillance frontier: Officer perspectives of body-worn cameras
Panel 3 – Policing democratic societies
Chair: Cornelis Roelofse
New security agenda of the European Union and its reflections to physiognomy of the police model
A democratic government and the national security system: Capacity building in Serbia with the emphasis on the police
Leadership competencies for policing local communities in Europe and Slovenia
The importance and impact of perceived values on job satisfaction in Slovenian police
Service delivery protests and police actions in South Africa: What are then real issues?
Panel 4 – Violence
Chair: Renato Matić
The challenge of understanding violence in contemporary society: A sociological approach
Violence among youth population in the Republic of Macedonia
Child abuse and exploitation through information and communication technologies in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Gender differences in sexual victimization
Results from recent European research on youth violence prevention: Some lessons for Serbia
Panel 5 – Criminal justice issues I.
Chair: Željko Karas
The attitude towards the individual qualities and abilities of an officer of pre-trial services – the attempt to establishing the profile of investigator’s profession
The concept and evaluation of the entrapment in theory and practice
Defendants’ complaint against police work in European arrest warrant proceedings
Legal aspects of a low-threshold examination service in Austria
Teaching English collocations to law enforcement students based on EU legal acts on immigration
Panel 6 – Green criminology - water crimes
Chair: Gorazd Meško
Water, inequalities and injustice: Social divisions, racism and colonialism – past and present
Politicking, government lobbying and the privatisation of freshwater
The Water Crimes project – An initiative to identify and contrast criminal actions against water resources in Europe
Providing water supply in local communities – A case study of Slovenia
Reception Hosted by the Dean of the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, Andrej Sotlar
Panel 7 – Local safety I.
Chair: Slaviša Vuković
Police role in local crime prevention – experiences from Serbia
Ensuring local safety – traffic safety in the Municipality of Ljubljana
The problem of graffiti in the Municipality of Ljubljana
Begging in Ljubljana as a form of local safety endangerment
Cybersecurity of Slovenia and its citizens
Panel 8 – Local safety II.
Chair: Aleš Bučar Ručman
The transition of prescription pills to heroin in local communities in the United States
Property crimes at petrol stations in Slovenia (2008-2013) and situational crime prevention
Crimes and incivilities against public order and peace in Ljubljana
Urban planning or urban mining?
Unjustified parking at parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities as an indicator of anomie: Preliminary results of a study in Ljubljana
Panel 9 – Illegal drugs and social control
Chair: Danijela Frangež
Technology innovation in the detection of drugs
The determination of causal connection between drugs abuse and criminal acts commitmen
Online counterfeit medicine trade in Slovenia
Drug policy for illegal non-commercial activities with narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and human rights: Principles of individual autonomy and the right to privacy
Panel 10 – Criminal justice issues II.
Chair: Rok Hacin
Advocacy for accreditation of the forensic laboratories of the Western Balkan countries in ISO/IEC 17025 and enhancement of their mutual cooperation
Clinical forensigraphy and its legal framework in Austria
Confiscating white-collar crime proceeds in the Republic of Macedonia
The equivalents of genocidal intent in abortion laws
Prison officers’ training in Slovenia
Panel 11 – Criminal justice issues III.
Chair: Mojca Plesničar
Zero tolerance of corruption? – The act of systemic investigation of projects of national importance
Corruption – The greatest impediment to the effective functioning of a modern state?
Disqualification of a judge as a guarantee of fairness of the criminal justice
The criminal law policy of the Russian Federation in the post-modern society
Re-shaping the system to allow for more community sentences
Panel 12 – State crime, violence and terrorism
Chair: Sheila R. Maxwell
Criminal acts of participation in war and armed conflict in foreign states in the law of the Republic of Serbia and international standards
Deradicalisation of foreign fighters
Far behind the frontline: Hybrid warfare and terrorist attacks in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Participation in extremist activities: A qualitative analysis using life history data
Is migration crisis caused by terrorism? Analysis of national media content of Croatian and foreign online media portals
Panel 13 – Security Studies
Chair: Bojan Tičar
The legal framework of corporate security in Slovenia
Sharing open source data between national intelligence services and companies, regardless of their ownership
Role of corporate security
Quality analysis of the project Competence centre for the training of security personnel
Final plenary & discussion
Chair: Gorazd Meško
Global political positioning: Policing in a global village from the perspectives of academics and practitioners
Closing of the conference