RESEARCHERS
Aleš Završnik
director and researcher
Fields of research: criminology, criminal law, philosophy of law, psychology and law, law and psychoanalysis, post-structural analysis of law, crime and technology, cybercrime
Renata Salecl
researcher
Fields of research: criminology and psychoanalysis, law and psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology of culture, political culture, culture and violence
Matjaž Jager
researcher
Fields of research: Crimes of the powerful, ethics and (criminal) law, philosophy of deviance, criminology of the state of exception
Mojca M. Plesničar
researcher
Areas of research: sentencing, punishment and decision-making processes in criminal justice, new technologies and criminal justice, marginalised groups (youth, women, foreigners) in criminology and criminal justice, violent crime, sexual crime.
Aleksej Jankovič
researcher
Fields of research: philosophy of law, law and emotion, ethics, judiciary
Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič
young researcher
Fields of research: criminological, criminal and international legal aspects of technology, philosophy of law, theories on violence and evil, space technology and space law, effects of technological development on human rights
Manja Skočir
researcher
Fields of research: criminology, philosophy (of law), maschine ethics, criminology and literature
Professional staff of Institute of Criminology is led by the director. It consists of senior researchers, part-time researches, external collaborates, junior researchers. Researchers hold a Ph.D with various internal titles such as senior scientific counselor, senior scientific fellows and scientific fellows. Junior researchers hold bachelor’s degree or master’s degree are part of the institute wihile pursuing a Ph.D. The rest of the staff consists of library and administration staff.
Part-time researchers
- Matjaž Ambrož, PhD Law, Researcher, Professor
- Katja Filipčič, PhD Law, Researcher, Professor
- Primož Križnar, M.A. Law, Researcher
- Miha Hafner, PhD Law, Researcher, Assistant Professor
- Katja Šugman Stubbs, PhD, Researcher, Full Professor
Visiting scholars
- Lior Volinz, Ph.D. (2021), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, postdoctoral researcher (Crime and Society - CRiS)
- Jakub Drapal, (2022, 2021, 2020), Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague.
- Maja Brkan, Ph.D. (2020), University of Ljubljana, Associate Professor of EU law, Faculty of law of Maastricht University
Emeritus
- Dragan Petrovec, PhD, Researcher and Professor
- Alenka Šelih, PhD, Researcher and Professor Emeritus
ALUMNI
- dr. Marko Bošnjak, podpredsednik sodišča in sodnik, ESČP
- dr. Maja Brkan, sodnica, Splošno sodišče, CJEU
- dr. Primož Gorkič, vrhovni sodnik, VS RS
- dr. Ciril Keršmanc, okrožni sodnik
- dr. Saša Kmet, okrajni sodnik, dodeljen na VS RS
