Aleš Bučar Ručman

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Aleš Bučar Ručman, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor. His research is focused on various forms of deviance and violence, (in)formal social control mechanisms and social solidarity. He reflects on these issues mainly through the analysis of relations between power holders and marginalised groups (e.g. immigrants, and people with disabilities). Currently, he is the head of the international Erasmus+ project With knowledge against bullying, which aims to gain insight into the bullying situation in Slovenia and Croatia and develop culturally specific and efficient evidence-based bullying prevention and early intervention program.