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Little Free Library
A renovated Little Free Library awaits you at the entrance to the Library of the Institute of Criminology. With a selection that will be refreshed every month, it invites you to give some books a new home.
The Library was established in the same year as the Institute (1954) and holds the status of a special library. It was originally intended solely to meet the needs of researchers, but it soon outgrew this framework and is now available to anyone seeking information or materials in the fields of criminology and criminal justice sciences. The Library is open-access and available to all visitors.
The Library collects, processes, and lends materials in the fields of criminology and criminal justice sciences. Its collection includes monographs, conference proceedings, materials from symposia and congresses, official publications, research reports, criminal and other legislation, dictionaries, lexicons and encyclopedias, official publications, grey literature, and serial publications. The materials cover criminology, crime, social pathology, deviant behaviour, substantive and procedural criminal law, international and European law, the operation of criminal justice bodies, criminal policy, crime prevention, penology, criminal investigation, victimology, juvenile delinquency and the juvenile justice system, forensic sciences, and other disciplines related to criminology.
The Library acquires materials through purchase, exchange, and donations, and strives to ensure that its acquisition policy follows developmental trends in criminology and criminal law. For periodicals, it seeks to maintain continuity of subscriptions and has been receiving several highly respected criminology journals for decades.
The Institute of Criminology Library is open-access, and anyone who registers and respects the Library’s rules may become a member.
MEMBERSHIP
- To register, you need a completed registration form and an identity document or a valid student ID. Upon registration, each member receives a library card.
- Members may use the Library’s services only upon presenting their library card.
BORROWING
- Users can borrow most materials for home use for 14 days.
- It is not possible to borrow journals, diploma and master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. Articles from journals can be photocopied at a nearby photocopy shop.
- The loan period for materials that are not reserved can be extended by one month before the loan period expires, via the COBISS/OPAC – My Library web application, by email, by phone or in person at the library.
MY LIBRARY – REGISTRATION
To use the My Library service, you must:
- enter the siglo (50013), acronym (KRIMLJ) or library name,
- enter your membership card number and password (if you have forgotten your password, please contact the library and we will enter a new initial password for you).
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MY LIBRARY – SERVICES
The My Library service allows you to:
- review of borrowed materials,
- extend the loan period (not possible if the return period has already expired, if the material is reserved),
- cancel reservations,
- change password,
- select the type (reservation period, reserved material arrived, loan period about to expire, etc.) and the method of electronic notification from the library (SMS messages or e-mail).
Database
The computerised database, which was created in 1987, currently contains 25,000 bibliographical indexed references concerning criminology and criminal justice. The database, which is updated on a regular basis, contains references on all criminology and criminal justice subjects: crime and deviance, criminal policy, crime prevention, substantive and procedural criminal law, administration of criminal justice, international and European criminal law, criminal investigation, penology, juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, victimology, forensic sciences, human rights and many other topics. All references are produced on the basis of materials acquired by the library: monographs, collections of papers, congress and conference proceedings, published and unpublished research reports, official publications, criminal codes and other legislative materials, grey literature and about 80 titles of periodicals (see list of periodicals). Each reference contains a bibliographical description and descriptors. References on books also contain tables of contents.
From February 1998, this data base is accessible online on the Co-operative Online Bibliographic System & Services (COBISS), IZUM, Maribor.
Periodicals
Library is subscribed or recieves on a regular basis 21 titles of domestic and foreign periodicals.
Articles from these periodicals are indexed and entred in the Institute’s computerised database which can be found and accessed to under the section Computerised database.
List of periodicals (updated in February 2026)
- Anthropos – Ljubljana
- British Journal of Criminology – London
- Crimen. Časopis za krivične nauke – Beograd
- Družboslovne razprave – Ljubljana
- Eucrim. The European Criminal Law Associations’ forum – Freiburg i. Br.
- European Journal of Criminology – London
- Godišnjak Pravnog fakulteta u Sarajevu – Sarajevo
- Hrvatski ljetopis za kaznene znanosti i praksu – Zagreb
- Isis – Ljubljana
- Journal of Art Crime – Boston
- Kriminologisches Journal – Weinheim
- Literatura – Ljubljana
- Odvetnik. Glasilo Odvetniške zbornice Slovenije – Ljubljana
- Pravna praksa – Ljubljana
- Pravnik – Ljubljana
- Problemi. Revija za kulturo in družbena vprašanja – Ljubljana
- Ptički brez gnezda – Ljubljana
- Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo – Ljubljana
- Temida – Beograd
- Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci – Rijeka
- Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu – Zagreb
Remaining periodicals in the library collection
The library also holds a number of additional periodical titles that it no longer receives or that are no longer in print. Many titles that are still being published are now also available online, subject to the terms and conditions of the relevant databases.
List of remaining periodicals in the library collection
- Aggression and Violent Behavior – Ft. Lauderdale
- Annales internationales de criminologie – Paris
- Archives de politique criminelle – Paris
- Archiwum Kryminologii – Varšava
- Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice – Ottawa
- Crime and Delinquency – New York
- Crime, Law and Social Change – Dordrecht
- Criminal Justice and Behavior – Beverly Hills
- Criminologie – Montréal
- Criminology – Beverly Hills
- Criminology & Criminal Justice – London
- Critical Criminology – Dordrecht
- Déviance et société – Genève
- Revija za človekove pravice – Ljubljana
- European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice – Leiden
- European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research – Dordrecht
- Federal Probation – Washington
- International Journal of Children’s Rights – Leiden
- International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology – Thousand Oaks
- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology – Chicago
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency – Thousand Oaks
- Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention – Stockholm
- Justice Quarterly – Boston
- Kriminalističke teme – Sarajevo
- Kriminalistik – Heidelberg
- Law & society review – Beverly Hills
- Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology – Brno
- Monatsschrift fuer Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform – Köln
- Neue Kriminalpolitik – Baden–Baden
- Pravosodni bilten – Ljubljana
- Revue de droit pénal et de criminologie – Bruxelles
- Revue de science criminelle et de droit pénal comparé – Paris
- Revue internationale de criminologie et de police technique et scientifique – Genève
- Revue pénitentiaire et de droit pénal – Paris
- Social Justice – San Francisco
- Socialna pedagogika – Ljubljana
- Socialno delo – Ljubljana
- Teorija in praksa – Ljubljana
- Theoretical Criminology – London
- Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Podgorici – Podgorica
- Zbornik radova – Novi Sad
- Zbornik znanstvenih razprav Pravne fakultete – Ljubljana
- Zdravniški vestnik – Ljubljana
Online publications
Below you can access freely available texts in the fields of criminology, criminal law, and social, political, and moral philosophy. The texts are available under the terms and conditions set by the websites.
- Bar, Ludwig von: A history of continental criminal law, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Beccaria, Cesare: An essay on crimes and punishments, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Beecher, Henry Ward: Twelve Causes of Dishonesty, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Bentham, Jeremy: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Bentham, Jeremy: Panopticon, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Bentham, Jeremy: The rationale of punishment, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Colquhoun, Patrick: A treatise on the police of the Metropolis, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Darrow, Clarence: Crime: its cause and treatment, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Esmein, Adhemar: A history of continental criminal procedure, with special reference to France, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Ferri, Enrico: Criminal sociology, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Ferri, Enrico: The positive school of criminology, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Garofalo, Raffaele: Criminology, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Gross, Hans: Criminal investigation, a practical handbook for magistrates, police officers and lawyers, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Gross, Hans: Criminal psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Havelock, Ellis: The criminal, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Healy, Mary Tenney: Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Healy, William: The individual delinquent; a text-book of diagnosis and prognosis for all concerned in understanding offenders, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Henderson, Charles Richmond: Introduction to the study of the dependent, defective, and delinquent classes, and of their social treatment, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Hume, David: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Irving, Henry Brodribb: A Book of Remarkable Criminals, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Kant, Immanuel: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Kayll, James Leslie Allan: A plea for the Criminal, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Lee, W. L. Melville: A history of police in England, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Lombroso, Cesare: Crime, its causes and remedies, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Lombroso, Gina: Criminal man, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Lombroso, Cesare: The female offender, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Mill, John Stuart: On Liberty, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Mill, John Stuart: A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Mill, John Stuart: Utilitarianism, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Morrison, William Douglas: Crime and its causes, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Mosby, Thomas Speed: Causes and cures of crime, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Nitsche, Paul H. idr.: The history of the prison psychoses, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Parry, Edward Abbott: The Law and the Poor, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Rickaby, Joseph: Free will and four English philosophers: Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Mill, hosted by: Internet Archive
- The Riot Act, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Tarde, Gabriel: Penal philosophy, hosted by: Internet Archive
- Train, Arthur Cheney: Courts and criminals, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Train, Arthur Cheney: True stories of crime from the District Attorney’s Office, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- US Federal Bureau of Investigation: The Science of Fingerprints, hosted by: Project Gutenberg
- Wigmore, J. H. idr.: The Progress of continental law in the nineteenth century, hosted by: Internet Archive
Links
- COBISS
- Council of Europe
- Council of Europe / Treaties
- Digitalna knjižnica Slovenije
- Digitalna knjižnica Univerze v Ljubljani
- Društvo bibliotekarjev
- Državni zbor Republike Slovenije
- Ebrary
- EUR-Lex
- Evropska unija
- Web of Science
- National Criminal Justice NCJ Thesaurus
- NCJRS Virtual Library
- NUK – mrežnik
- SAGE Publications
- SICRIS
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