The primary aim of the fourteenth 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 development 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 contemporary criminal justice and security issues.

The Biennial International Conference Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe is subtitled The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – Rural and Urban Safety and Security Perspectives. To ensure effective implementation of security and safety, reforms, strategies, and policies ought to be driven by knowledge, facts, identified problems, and research expertise. With the aim to identify good practices and research this year’s proposed Conference theme covers a wide range of topics related to the policing strategies and criminal justice policy development, implementation, reforms, and research.

Possible topics

Any topic related to the UN 17 SDGs, urban and rural perspectives in relation to the following topics, especially on:

• Deviance, crime and crime control
• Policing, criminal justice and other social reactions on crime
• Community, evidence-based, problem-oriented and intelligence-led policing
• Fear of crime and feelings of safety
• Prisons and probation
• Crime prevention
• Victimization surveys
• Public, media and security
• Implementation of local criminal justice and security policies
• Traditions of criminal justice, criminology and security research
• Follow-up and evaluation research in criminal justice and criminology
• Plural policing - local government law enforcement and private security
• Rural criminology and its development

A deadline for abstract submission is May 5, 2023 (extended deadline). The authors will receive a reply from the conference organisers no later than May 25, 2023.

You are encouraged to submit your abstracts by March 31, 2023 and full papers by September 1, 2023. Selected papers are going to be peer-reviewed and included in the Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, and Journal of Criminal Justice and Security.

Abstracts and papers should be submitted via EasyChair platform.