Research Projects

Research Programme

SECURITY AND SAFETY IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES (2015-2018)
programme leader: prof. dr. Gorazd Meško

Basic Projects

LEGITIMACY AND LEGALITY OF POLICING, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND EXECUTION OF PENAL SANCTIONS (2013-2016)
project leader: prof. dr. Gorazd Meško

COOPERATION NETWORKS IN SLOVENE SCIENCE (2013-2016)
project leader: prof. dr. Anuška Ferligoj; FCJS researcher: dr. Matevž Bren, associate professor

International Projects

LEGITIMACY OF POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE – COMPARATIVE PROSPECTIVES - Scientific Research Programme between Republic of Slovenia and United States of America (2014-2015)

LEGITIMACY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PENAL SYSTEMS IN RUSSIA AND SLOVENIA – Scientific Research Programme between Republic of Slovenia and Russia (2014-2015)

LEGITIMACY OF POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SLOVENIA AND SERBIA - COMPERATIVE PERSPECTIVES – Scientific Research Programme between Republic of Slovenia and Serbia (2014-2015)

FCJS and its Institute carried out a numerous research projects on the national and the international level:

• ARIEL - ASSESSING THE RISK OF THE INFILTRATION OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN EU MSS LEGITIMATE (2013-2015); project leader: prof. dr. Gorazd Meško. More information
• EFUS – EUROPEAN FORUM FOR URBAN SECURITY (from 2012). More information
• URBIS - URBAN MANAGER FOR SECURITY, SAFETY AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT (od 2012); project coordinator: Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency; project leader: prof. dr. Gorazd Meško. More information
• environmental crime – criminological, crime preventive, psychological and legal aspects;
• research on the prevention of crime in Slovenia (local level) and cooperation in CRIMPREV – assessing deviance, crime and prevention in Europe: new challenges and evolutions of crime and deviant behaviours in Europe;
• project Daphne II (Pathways to Survive Stalking for Women Victims) was the first research on stalking, allowing for comparability of data within the European framework;
• project Daphne III (Protecting Women from the New Crime of Stalking: a Comparison of Legislative Approaches within the EU), the first such research on the European level on legal issues of how to deal with stalking in EU;
• a project of the Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research: Conditionality, Corruption and Informal Institutions: an Analysis of Corruption in The Spheres of Public Procurement, Partly Funding, Lobbying and the Judiciary in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania;
• protection of judges and courts;
• analysses on the distribution patterns of some deviant behaviors in Ljubljana;
• road traffic accident participants’ and road traffic code offenders’ assessments of and views on procedures performed by police officers;
• property crime offenders’ assessments of and views on procedures performed by police officers and crime investigators;
• border area residents’ assessments of and views on procedures performed by police officers at the Schengen border;
• research on viewpoints on police work;
• job satisfaction in the police;
• research on road traffic accident participants’ and road traffic code offenders’ assessments and views;
• police and private security companies in the process of providing internal safety and security; and
• an analysis and amendments of the Slovenian education system while discussing violence issues in the light of drug abuse.