The Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law was established in 1954 as the first criminological institute in the former Yugoslavia. It was founded by the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, and although it soon became independent, it has always maintained very strong links with the founding Faculty. Since the very beginning, the Institute's main activities have been: research, teaching and dissemination of information, publishing, organisation of conferences and symposia, operation of library and documentation service, and maintaining this service to meet the needs of researchers and other users.