Gorazd Meško

Short Resume

Gorazd Meško, Ph.D., is a Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia. His research interests are crime prevention, safety and security in local communities, legitimacy of criminal justice and victims of crime, and especially the development of rural criminology in Europe. He is the author of criminological articles covering comparative criminology, rural criminology, environmental crimes, feelings of safety/fear of crime, policing and crime prevention. His recently (co)edited books include Rural Criminology in Global Perspective: State of the Art on the World’s Continents (in print, 2025) - The UN Sustainable Development Goals and Provision of Security, Responses to Crime and Security Threats, and Fair Criminal Justice Systems (2024), Mapping Victimological Landscape in the Balkans (2020), Water, Governance and Crime Issues (2020), Trust and Legitimacy in Criminal Justice: European Perspectives (2015), Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe (2013), and Understanding and Managing Threats to the Environments in Southeastern Europe (2011).