Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe: New Risks, Crime, Policing, Courts, Prisons and Security in the Post-COVID-19 Times – Challenges and Opportunities, Book of Abstracts

Gorazd Meško is a Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor. His research interests are comparative criminology, crime prevention, victimology, penology, policing, factors of delinquency and rural criminology.

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: gorazd.mesko@um.si

Katja Eman, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor. Her research interests include criminology (especially green and rural criminology), victimology, penology, crime prevention, and crime mapping. She has co-authored publications on crime and criminal justice, including crime victims in general and victims of environmental crime, as part of her studies in the field of green criminology. In the past decade, she participated in different national and European research projects: Safety and Security in Local Communities: Comparison of Rural and Urban Environments (2019-2024), Water Crimes in Europe (2016-2017), and the project SHINE on sexual harassment in nightlife city areas (2020-2023). She is currently a lead researcher in the national project Risks due to natural and environmental disasters in the areas of the Slovenian Army operation (2023-2025).

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: katja.eman@um.si

Rok Hacin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor. His research focuses on the legitimacy of criminal justice, police and policing, crime mapping, penal policy, and crime and penal statistics. He has published numerous scientific articles in national and international scientific journals such as the European Journal of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Policing and Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo, as well as a scientific monograph and chapters in national and international monographs published by renowned publishers, such as Routledge, Springer. He was a lead researcher in a project entitled “Research in the field of professional competencies of prison workers and relations in prisons” (2021-2022).

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: rok.hacin@um.si