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Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe

  • Indentifies key policing trends in each country, with respect to their different political, historical and social contexts

  • Case studies from Central and European authors

  • Provides blueprint for future research, with consistent and comparable data and terminology

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction to Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe

    • Gorazd Meško, Charles B. Fields, Branko Lobnikar, Andrej Sotlar
    Pages 1-4
  3. Policing in Croatia: The Main Challenges on the Path to Democratic Policing

    • Irma Kovčo Vukadin, Krunoslav Borovec, Tajana Ljubin Golub
    Pages 31-55
  4. Policing in the Czech Republic: Evolution and Trends

    • Pavel Foltin, Andrej Rohál, Mária Šikolová
    Pages 57-80
  5. Policing in Germany: Developments in the Last 20 Years

    • Thomas Feltes, Uwe Marquardt, Stefan Schwarz
    Pages 93-113
  6. Finding the Right Path of Policing in Hungary

    • Richard Leyrer
    Pages 115-128
  7. Policing in the Republic of Macedonia

    • Stojanka Mirčeva, Rade Rajkovčevski
    Pages 143-168
  8. Montenegrin Police: Current Profile and Future Trends

    • Zoran Keković, Savo Kentera
    Pages 169-190
  9. Policing in Russia

    • Vladimir Sergevnin, Oleg Kovalyov
    Pages 191-215
  10. Policing in the Slovak Republic: The Organization and Current Problems of Police Work

    • Josef Reitšpís, Libor Gašpierik, Kamil Boc, Miroslav Felcan
    Pages 239-261
  11. Recent Developments of Policing in Slovenia

    • Gorazd Meško, Branko Lobnikar, Maja Jere, Andrej Sotlar
    Pages 263-286
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 305-316

About this book

Policing in Central and Eastern Europe has changed greatly since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some Central and  Eastern European countries are constituent members of the European Union, while others have been trying to harmonize with the EU and international requirements for a more democratic policing and developments in accordance with Western European and international policing standards, especially in regard to issues of legality and legitimacy.

Changes in the police training system (basic and advanced), internationalization of policing due to  transnationalization of crime and deviance, and new police organizational structures and agencies have impacted new cultures of policing (from exclusively state to plural policing). This timely volume examines developments in the last two decades to learn the nature of these changes within Central and Eastern Europe, and their impact on police culture, as well as on society as a whole.

The development of police research has varied widely throughout Central and Eastern Europe: in some countries, it has developed significantly, while in others it is still in its infancy. This work allows for a transfer of ideas and models of police organization and policing, with an aim to provide consistent and comparable data across all of the countries discussed. For the twenty countries covered, this systematic work provides: short country-based information on police organization and social control; crime and disorder trends in the last 20 years with an emphasis on policing, police training and police educational systems; changes in policing in the last 20 years; police and the media; present trends in policing (public and private, multilateral, plural policing); policing urban and rural communities; recent research trends in research on policing; and future developments.

Keywords

  • Austria
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bulgaria
  • Comparative Policing
  • Croatia
  • Czech Republic
  • Emerging Democracies
  • Estonia
  • Germany
  • Hungary
  • Kosovo
  • Macedonia
  • Montenegro
  • Police Education in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Police studies
  • Policing and the Media
  • Policing in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Public Opinion on Police
  • Republic of Srpska
  • Russia
  • Serbia
  • Slovak Republic
  • Slovenia

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Gorazd Meško

  • , College of Justice and Safety, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, USA

    Charles B. Fields

  • , Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Branko Lobnikar, Andrej Sotlar

About the editors

Gorazd Meško, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminology and Dean in the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (1995, 2011-2013) and Oxford (1996, 1999), as well as a visiting professor at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA (2000). He conducted a post-doctoral research (OSI-HESP) on crime prevention at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK in 2001. In addition, Gorazd Meško is a member of the scientific board of the International PhD in Criminology at the Catholic University in Milan, Italy. He also serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology (orig. Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo) and a member of the editorial board of the Policing – An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management. His research fields are crime prevention and provision of safety/security, policing, comparative criminology, fear of crime, and crimes against the environment.

 

Charles B. Fields, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminal Justice and Police Studies in the College of Justice and Safety at Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky, USA. He has a B.A. (1980) and M.A. (1981) in Political Science from Appalachian State University, and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice Theory (1984) from Sam Houston State University, USA. He has taught for the past 28 years at several universities in the United States, and was Department Chair of Criminal Justice at the California State University, San Bernardino, and Corrections and Juvenile Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. He has been a visiting lecturer at several institutions in Finland. He is a member of numerous regional, national, and international professional associations and has published 11 edited books and Technical Reports, over 30 scholarly articles, chapters, encyclopaedia entries, and reviews, and presented at over 30 academic conferences. Current research interests include The “Terza Scuola” (Third School) of the Italian Criminologists: 1880–1910, Drugs and International Drug Policy, and Comparative Justice Systems.

 

Branko Lobnikar, PhD, is Associate Professor of Police Management and Police Administration and Head of the Security Studies Department at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia.  As former police officer and police supervisor he serves as OSCE international expert in Kyrgyz Republic on community policing , was a member of management board of European Diploma in Policing, an international project of senior police managers training,  a short time expert of Council of Europe in Albania and Turkey in area of maintaining police corruption and short time expert of DCAF (Swiss) on motivation and maintaining discipline at the workplace for police managers of border police from area of West Balkans in Macedonia. His areas of expertise comprise policing, human resource management, and deviant behavior within organizations. He has authored several papers on community policing and police deviance management. Currently, he is involved in the study of police integrity.

 

Andrej Sotlar, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor and Vice dean in the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia. He has a B.A. (1993), M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2007) in Defence science from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He serves as the co-editor in chief of the Journal of Criminal Justice and Security (orig. Varstvoslovje) and a member of the editorial boards of several other journals. His research interests include national security, security policy, plural policing and private security.

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