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Title of lecture

L 1.

Introduction to Course                                                                       Contemporary Issues in Comparative Studies of Crime, Security and Social Order Policy Making - Crime Control Policy

L 2.

The Measurement of Crime - Issues and Concerns

L 3.

What works, what doesn't and what is promising (for whom, in what circumstances and at what cost?) in the field of crime prevention?

L 4.

Social control in the present world

 "Ordinary Crime"

  - property crime

  - violent crime

  - organized crime

  - occupational crime

L 5.

Social control in the present world (cont.)

"Extraordinary Crime"

  - cyber crime

  - drug crime

  - environmental crime

  - war crimes

  - state crimes & corruption

  - human trafficking

  - terrorism

  - other transnational crime

L 6.

Criminology

L 7.

Research on social control in emerging democracies

L 8.

Future of social control - can we predict the future on the basis of the past and present?

L 9.

Student Presentations

L.10

Student Presentations

Name

HE institution, State

Language

In Slovenia from - to

1

Dr. Gorazd Meško

Faculty of criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor

English

2

Dr. Bojan Dobovšek

Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor

English

3.7

3

Dragan Petrovec

7.7

4

Noah Charney

4.7

5

Dr. Andrej Sotlar

Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor

2.7

Mag. Aleš Bučar-Ručman

Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor

9.7

3

Dr. Athanassios Papaioannou

Technological Institute, Athens, Greece

English

7.7-9.7.2008

4

Maja Dimc

Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Slovenia

English

5. 7

name

Short CV (approximately 100 words)

1.

Dr. Gorazd Meško

Associate professor of criminology and dean at the FCJS, UM, Slovenia. Dr. Meško has conducted research in fields of juvenile delinquency, criminal careers, prisons and prisoners, prison staff, police, crime prevention, violence and specific forms of crime. He has published several books in Slovene: Introduction to criminology (1998), Criminology (2006 and 2008), Crime prevention (2002 and 2004). In addition, he has published books in English: Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium (2000), Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice (2004), Policing in Emerging Democracies (2007). He has taught criminology at the University of Ljubljana, University of Maribor and University of Sarajevo. He as been a visiting scholar and fellow at universities in the UK and the USA. 

2.

Dr. Bojan Dobovšek

Doctor of Science (Ph.D. Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Assistant Professor in Criminology and Criminal Investigation, is a Vice Dean at the Faculty of Criminal Justice, University of Maribor, Slovenia. He is a member of Commission for the Prevention of Corruption as representative of Judiciary branch of power and representative of Slovenia in GRECO. He is in Board of Trustees of ARCA (Association for Research into Crimes against Art). He is the author of a book on organised crime and editor of several publications on corruption and organised crime. He has been working on organised crime for several years and published a lot of books and articles. Ongoing research projects: Corruption in State institutions; Corruption networks; Organised crime and terrorism; Methodological obstacles in measuring corruption; Analyses of Conventions on Corruption, Art crime investigations. He is author of draft recomandations for project OECD: Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies, Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Ukraine.

3.

Dragan Petrovec

Born in 1952 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he finished law studies at the age of 23.  In 1977 he passed a bar examination and worked in the Ministry of Justice, Prison Administration. In 1983 he moved to prison institution where they succeeded through an experiment to open up a prison system which was formerly a closed one. Meantime he completed a master degree with a thesis »Limits and Impact of a Treatment Ideology«. In 1993 he moved to the Institute of criminology, Faculty of Law, where he received a doctoral degree with the thesis »The Aims of Punishment - a Dead End of Neo-classical Theories.

His primary fields of research are philosophy of punishment, treatment ideology and practice, crime policy and victims.

He teaches penology in postgraduate courses (Faculty of Law, Faculty of Criminal Justice and security, Faculty of Social Work).

His books are:  »Kazen brez zločina«, (»Punishment without Crime«) - 1998; Violence in the Media (2003); Kult žrtve (The Cult of the Victim«) (2006).

4.

Noah Charney

Noah Charney holds advanced degrees in art history from The Courtauld Institute and Cambridge University.  He is the founding director of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit think tank and consultancy group on issues in art crime (www.artcrime.info).  His work in the field of art crime has been praised in such forums as The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, BBC Radio, and National Public Radio, among others.  He has appeared on radio and television, including ITV, CNBC, and MSNBC and he is in constant demand as a lecturer.  He has taught art history for many years, lecturing at Yale University, University of Cambridge, in Florence, Italy and Ljubljana, Slovenia among other locations.  Mr. Charney is the author of numerous articles and a novel, The Art Thief (Atria 2007).  He is the editor of an academic essay collection entitled Crime in the Art World, which will be published by Praeger in 2009.  He lives in Europe and lectures internationally in the subjects of art history and art crime.

5.

Dr. Andrej Sotlar

ANDREJ SOTLAR, Ph.D. in defence studies, Senior lecturer at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice, where he is Head of Security Department. He is an expert in the field of national security, intelligence and security services and private security. He has participated in a few governmental projects regarding the interdepartmental cooperation in the field of national security in Slovenia and legislation in the field of private security.

His main research fields of interests are: the structure of national security systems, security policy making, activities and control over intelligence and security services, participation of private security services in state security systems, terrorism etc. He is an author or co-author of several articles and publications, as well as papers at national and international conferences in the field of national security and criminal justice. Currently, he is participating in two major national research projects in the field of security ("Knowledge for

6.

Aleš Bučar- Ručman

Aleš Bučar- Ručman, MA, Senior lecturer in Criminology, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: ales.bucar@fvv.uni-mb.si

He is the editor and author of study Violence and Youth People (orig. Nasilje in mladi) and co-author of several papers on violence and other criminological topics. His present research interests include the role of media in contemporary society, crime and migration and criminality of migrants. He has also participated in several research projects. He was the coordinator/secretary of international projects cofounded by EU Commission programme Daphne II, Daphne III, Daphne IV (projects connected to research of stalking phenomenon done by group of experts - Modena group on stalking). He was coordinator of projects connected to analyses of youth violence and delinquent behaviour of young people (cofounded by EU Commission, programme MOVIT, 2002) and Youth Bureau of Slovenia (2004). His also cooperates with different NGOs in Slovenia, especially those that are working on the field of violence prevention, victim support and human rights.

7.

Dr. Athanassios Papaioannou

Professor of European Law at the Athens Technological Institute. Has also taught at the Police Academy of Athens. Scientific counsel of the Greek Economic and Social Committee since 1996. Among his main assignments: Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. Obtained his doctoral thesis (S.J.D.) at the University of Pennsylvania, USA in 1990. Advisor on international affairs of the Greek Minister of Justice (2000-2004); one of the two Greek jurists who negotiated the extradition and mutual judicial cooperation on criminal matters treaties between US and EU which were concluded and signed during the Greek Presidency in 2004. Elected chairman of the Council's of Europe committee on anti-terrorist policy during 2001-2003. Authored around 30 articles in Greek and American law reviews and 6 books among which: "The American Justices and the war on terrorism" and "The British Judges and Terrorism" in Greek.

4.

Maja Dimc

Ms. Maja Dimc obtained her undergraduate degree at Roosevelt University in Chicago (major in Political Science and minor in Computer Science) while working for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company as an application developer for the field of Security, Environmental, Safety & Health. She continued her studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana where she obtained her master degree in Political Science with master thesis titled "Corruption and Informal Networks in Slovenia" based on an international research headed by the Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research. Maja Dimc is currently working as an IT analyst at the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Slovenia, where she is responsible for development, implementation and maintenance of information systems in the field of logistics. Furthermore, she is also working at the Faculty of Management of the University of Primorska as a lecturer of the course Business Information Systems and as an assistant of the course Training of lecturers and mentors in e-education. She is cooperating with Center EMUNI in the implementation and maintenance of EMUNI Summer School e-classroom. Maja Dimc is planning to continue her studies in the field of cyber crime, since particular fields pertaining to this issue (information systems, political science, and security) have accompanied her throughout her professional life.