Zoran Kanduč
Researcher
Zoran Kanduč was born in 1962. He attended primary and secondary school in Idrija. After completing his military service in the Yugoslav People’s Army (during which he completed the reserve officer school), he studied at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, where he graduated in 1986, received his master’s degree in 1990 and his doctorate in 1993. Immediately after graduation, he was employed at the Institute of Criminology, where he still works as a researcher (with the title of scientific advisor). He is an assistant professor of criminology, habilitated at the University of Ljubljana.
Fileds of research
criminological and victimological theories, social (formal and informal, pro- and reactive) surveillance, structural and individual violence, humanly and ecologically harmful social practices
2024
- Kanduč, Z. (2024). Crises, states of emergency and other capitalist catastrophes in a criminological perspective. V Z. Kanduč (ur.), Deviance, injustice and crime in the crisis of neoliberal capitalism and Western imperialism (str. 183–356, 362–363, 368–369). Ljubljana: Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti.
- Kanduč, Z. (2024). Good, evil, normality and deviance on the socialist path to capitalism. Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 75(1), 11–29. Dostopno na: https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-MZ5C7TZL
2023
- Kanduč, Z. (2023). Prevention, (in)justice and capitalism. V V. Badalič (ur.), Preventive (in)justice: Preventing crime and social harm (str. 43–70, 156, 160). Ljubljana: Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti.
- Kanduč, Z. (2023). Violence, capitalism and imperialism from a criminological perspective. Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 74(2), 100–117. Dostopno na: https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-EEJY7R2W
2022
- Kanduč, Z. (2022). Explaining and preventing evil in religious, theological and demonological perspective. Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 73(1), 9–24. Dostopno na: https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-FOU8GCCL
2021
- Kanduč, Z. (2021). The criminological legacy of Professor Janez Pečar (1924–2021). Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 72(1), 5–20. Dostopno na: https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-JH6IMQ3K
- Kanduč, Z. (2021). Pandemic, discipline and surveillance. Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 72(1), 91–100. Dostopno na: https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-4BMCUQ9W
- Kanduč, Z. (2021). Structural violence, deviance and social control in urban life and space. V N. Peršak & A. Di Ronco (ur.), Harm and disorder in the urban space (str. 165–184). London: Routledge.
2020
- Kanduč, Z. (2020). Looting, normative constraints and neoliberalism. Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology, 71(1), 5–20. Dostopno na: https://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-T0U4A2YX
- Kanduč, Z. (2020). Borders and limitations in surveillance practices and criminological theory. V R. Salecl (ur.), Shifting borders in criminology and crime policy (str. 15–174, 509, 517–518). Ljubljana: Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti.
- Kanduč, Z. (2020). Victims, victimisers, postmodern culture, neoliberal capitalism and the case of Slovenia as a transitional society. V G. Meško, E. Sárik & A.-M. Getoš (ur.), Mapping the victimological landscape of the Balkans (str. 21–52, 60). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
Current projects:
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The Rise of Illiberal Democracies: A Criminological and Socio-legal Analysis (1. 10. 2023 – 30. 9. 2026) – Project leader: Dr. Vasja Badalič
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Unofficial Psychedelic-assisted Therapy in Slovenian Legal Framework (1. 10. 2023 – 30. 9. 2026) – Project leader: Dr. Miha Hafner
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The Analysis of Emergency Measures: Protecting Human Rights and Preventing Social Harms in the Era of Perpetual Crises (1. 10. 2022 – 30. 9. 2025) – Project leader: Dr. Renata Salecl
Past projects:
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Preventive (In)Justice: The Prevention of Crime and Social Harms (1. 9. 2020 – 31. 12. 2023) – Project leader: Dr. Vasja Badalič
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Shifting Boundaries in Criminology and Crime Policy (1. 5. 2017 – 30. 4. 2020) – Project leader: Dr. Renata Salecl
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Law in the Age of Big Data: Regulating Privacy, Transparency, Secrecy, and Conflicting Values in the 21st Century (1. 7. 2014 – 30. 6. 2017) – Project leader: Dr. Aleš Završnik
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Law and the Brain – Criminological, Philosophical, and Psychoanalytical Insights on the Subject in the Age of Neuroscience (1. 7. 2011 – 30. 6. 2014) – Project leader: Dr. Renata Salecl
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Prevalence of Violence and Responses to Violence in the Private Sphere and in Intimate Relationships (1. 9. 2008 – 28. 2. 2011) – Project leader: Dr. Katja Filipčič
