EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, we are pleased to present a special issue of the Journal of Criminalistics and Criminology dedicated to this important anniversary. Founded in 1954, the...

AUTUMN SCHOOL ‘LAW AND CHALLENGES OF DIGITAL (R)EVOLUTION’ DATA AS THE NEW OIL? CHALLENGES IN ACCESSING DATA 10:00–17:30 / 22. NOVEMBER 2024 In the digital age, almost everything is data-driven,which is why there is increasing talk of data becomingthe "new oil". Like...

We are proud to announce that our researcher Dr Mojca M. Plesničar was successful in obtaining a prestigious ERC project. Her 5-year project Sentrix - "Sentencing architecture: building a decision-making matrix" was awarded funding of more than EUR 1.5 million. The...

Vasja Badalič presented a paper at the annual conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, between 27 and 29 August 2024. The paper, titled “Liberal ‘Defensive’ Imperialism: The Normalization of Preventive...

Between 22 and 24 August, Festival Grounded took place in Ljubljana. This year, the topic of the festival concerned racism, and amongst the speakers in the critical discussions regarding this issue was also our junior researcher Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič. In the first...

In an interview with journalist Suzana Lovec (N1), dr. Renata Salecl talks about choice, anxiety, love, hate, rudeness, neoliberalism and ignorance. You can view the podcast via the link below: https://n1info.si/poglobljeno/uspe-takrat-ko-nas-zelo-ocara/  ...

You are cordially invited to a lecture entitled "Implementing body camera technology: lessons and practical considerations" by our guest researcher Jean-Pierre Roux, which will take place in the framework of Tuesday's meetings. The lecture will take place on...

You are kindly invited to Elise Kolen's lecture "Beyond Reality: Analysing the regulatory framework for combating non-consensual sexually explicit AI-generated deepfakes in the metaverse", which will take place in the framework of the Tuesday Meetings next Tuesday, 16...

The Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana co-organises an international symposium entitled Who Cares for the People: from socialism to post-socialism. The symposium will take place on 28 May 2024 at the SAZU Hall, Novi trg 3, Ljubljana, starting...

Renata Salecl participated in the Peace and Heritage of Hiroshima & Nagasaki Special Workshop held at Hiroshima University on 7 May 2024. As part of this workshop, she gave a lecture entitled Can the heritage of Hiroshima prepare us for the new threats of possible...

Dr Renata Salecl will be a guest lecturer at Hiroshima University on 22.5.2024. She will give a lecture entitled "Trauma and Ignorance: How people deal with memories of violence and war". The lecture will take place in the framework of The 31st International Peace and...

The European Court of Human Rights has elected Dr. Marko Bošnjak as its president. Dr. Bošnjak began his academic career as a junior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, where he later served as a research associate . We sincerely and proudly congratulate our...

The statement of the collective of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana is available here. The statement was summarised for RTV Slovenia by our young researcher Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, the summary can be found...

We kindly invite you to a Tuesday Meeting lecture by dr. Deniz Erkmen, titled »A Curveball and a Glimmer of Hope? Reflecting on 2024 Local Elections and Democratic Resilience in Turkey«, which will be held on Wednesday, 15 May, at 11.00 at the library of the Institute...

Registrations are now open for conference “Democratic backsliding in the era of permanent crises”, which we are organizing together with our partners within the project SOS4democracy. You can register here: https://form.jotform.com/240993120275354 Registration...

Dr Aleš Završnik was a guest on the Voice of Slovenian Australians Sydney on 13 April 2024. You can listen to the interview with Prof. Aleš Završnik here: https://omny.fm/shows/voice-of-slovenian-australians/voice-of-slovenian-australians-april-13-2024

Renata Salecl will be a special guest at a talk entitled Apathy, Politics and Anxiety on 30 May 2024. The talk is organised by the Institute for Global Prosperity.

Renata Salecl attended a talk at the Bitef Theatre in Belgrade on 23.4.2024. The topic of the talk was Ignorance, Denial and Forgetting. The talk was moderated by Maja Pelević.

On Monday, 22.4.2024, Dr Renata Salecl will take part in a discussion about her book "Strast za neznanjem". The talk will take place at Zenit Books, Novi Sad, at 7 pm. The discussion will be moderated by Aleksandar Fatić, professor at the Faculty of Media and...

Professor Aleš Završnik in Canberra at the Australian Judges' Training Days organised by the National Judicial College of Australia, 7 April 2024  

We are happy to invite you to a Tuesday Meeting with the recipients of the prizes for outstanding and above-average master's theses in the field of criminology and criminal law, awarded by the Society for Criminal Law and Criminology of Slovenia (DKPK). The meeting...

Our researcher dr. Jasmina Arnež gave a guest lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland on Wednesday, 28 February 2024 as part of The Crime, Justice & Society Seminar Series. In her lecture, she touched upon the hidden pathways of punishment and social...

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Professor Sveinung Sandberg from the University of Oslo has written a review of the book Negotiating Class in Youth Justice by our researcher Jasmina Arnež for the journal Theoretical Criminology. Jasmina's book also won the British Society of Criminology's 2023 Book...

Our researcher Dr. Kristina Čufar paid a study visit to the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg at the invitation of Slovenian judges Dr. Maja Brkan, Dr. Marko Ilešič and Dr. Damjan Kukovec. Besides taking advantage of the rich library of the CJEU,...

Our researchers Miha Hafner and Manja Skočir participated as national rapporteurs in a colloquium organised by the International Association for Criminal Law (AIDP) entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Justice", which took place in Opatija, Croatia. The...

Renata Salecl presented a French translation of her book A Passion for Ignorance in Paris. Les Éditions Stilus organized a debate between Renata Salecl and French psychoanalyst, Ronan Wellebrouck in Librairie Michèle Ignazi.

In the framework of the Tuesday meetings, a lecture by Dr. T. Deniz Erkmen entitled "Resistance under Mobile Emergency Rule: Repression and Transformation of the Protest Scene in Authoritarian Turkey" will take place on Wednesday, 6.12.2023, at 11:00 a.m. in the...

Our researchers Dr. Jasmina Arnež, Dr. Vasja Badalič, Prof. Renata Salecl and Prof. Aleš Završnik preseneted their papers at the ASC Annual Congress (photo: Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, remains of the famous panoptic prison, 1829- 1971).

BREAKtheBIAS project seeks to address one of the most challenging problems in the international human rights system that of unequal access to human rights justice. It looks at the outcomes of thousands of international, regional, and domestic human rights cases and...

Prof. Dr Aleš Završnik at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia on the opportunities and pitfalls of artificial intelligence on 8.11.2023: At the meeting called "Constitutional Moment", prof. Završnik gave a talk on the relevance of AI for law and...

The European Project "Social Sciences for Democracy - SOS4democracy" invites you to submit paper abstracts for its first annual conference, "Democratic backsliding in the era of permanent crises." The conference will take place from 26 to 28 June 2024 at the Roma Tre...

On Friday, 20 October 2023, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl had a debate with prof. dr. Susanne Baer, former judge of The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The title of the debate was On Passion for Ignorance.

On Thursday, 5 October 2023, we celebrated the 90th anniversary of dr. Alenka Šelih, long-time Director and Researcher at the Institute of Criminology, as part of the National Criminology Conference "Prevention and (In)Justice". After a welcoming address by the...

Our researcher dr. Renata Salecl will be speaking at the Buenos Aires International Book Festival (FILBA) on Friday 29 September. The discussion will focus on her new book Humanovirus, which has just been published by Editiones Godot in Argentina. In Humanovirus, dr....

On Tuesday, 19 September 2023, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl spoke at a colloquium entitled "The legal professions towards the new technologies of production, calculation and digital surveillance", organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires.

A new monograph entitled "Preventive (in)justice - The prevention of crime and social harms" has been published by the Institute of Criminology. The monograph - edited by dr. Vasja Badalič and with chapters authored by several Institute of Criminology researchers -...

Today, on Wednesday, 13 September 2023, there will be a conversation in the framework of the MALBA Writers' Residency with our researcher dr. Renata Salecl, who is currently visiting Buenos Aires. "An exclusive interview with Renata Salecl, the fourth REM guest, will...