The Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law was established in 1954. It was the first criminological institute in former Yugoslavia and one of the oldest criminological institutes in Europe.
Fields of research: criminology, criminal law, philosophy of law, psychology and law, law and psychoanalysis, post-structural analysis of law, crime and technology, cybercrime
Fields of research: criminology and psychoanalysis, law and psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology of culture, political culture, culture and violence
Fields of research: criminology, criminal law, economic analysis of criminal law, philosophy of criminal law, ethics and criminal law
Fields of research: theoretical criminology structural violence
Fields of research: sentencing, criminology, penology, criminal procedure, psychology and law
Fields of research: structuralism, political philosophy, social philosophy
Field of research: criminology
Fields of research: criminal law and technology, cybercrime, privacy and personal data protection
Fields of research: language and law (legal language, legal discourse), forensic linguistics, computational linguistics, speech perception, media and criminology, penology
Fields of research: psychology and law, victims of crime, criminal law.
Fields of research: criminology, criminal law and technology, empirical research
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, Associate Professor
- Primož Gorkič, PhD Law, Researcher, Associate Professor
- Primož Križnar,M.A. Law, Researcher
- Miha Hafner, PhD, Researcher
- Katja Šugman Stubbs, PhD, Researcher, Full Professor
- Lilijana Selinšek, PhD, Researcher
- Eva Bertok, PhD, Researcher
Visiting scholars
- Jakub Drapal, (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
- Noah Charney, Ph.D. University of Ljubljana, Founding Director of ARCA – Association for Research into Crimes against Art, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
- Cary H. Federman, Ph.D. (2005-2006), Montclair State University, New Jersey, ZDA, štipendist fundacije Fulbright
- Insa Haertel, Ph.D. (2006), Universitaet Bremen, Wissenschaftliche Assistentin
- Edgar Tijhuis, Ph.D. (2006), University of Leiden, Netherlands. ARCA – Association for Research into Crimes against Art, Amelia, Italy. Katschberg Consulting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Emeritus
- Dragan Petrovec, PhD, Researcher
- Alenka Šelih, PhD, Researcher and Professor Emeritus
