Alina Bezlaj
young researcher
Alina Bezlaj is a young researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law and a PhD student of criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. She finished her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Maribor and her M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology (international CREOLE programme) at the University of Ljubljana. As part of the programme, she finished her second year of Masters at the University of Maynooth in Ireland. Her main research interests encompass topics at the disciplinary junctions between psychology, anthropology, and criminology.
Fields of research
criminology, prisons, anthropology of space, urban anthropology
Original scientific article
- Bezlaj, A. (2025). Affective dynamics of belonging in a regenerated Dublin suburb. Emotion, Space and Society, 54, Article 101056, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101056
- Bezlaj, A. (2024). Critical analysis of academic psychological discourse on terrorism. Horizons of Psychology, 33, 21–29. https://doi.org/10.20419/2024.33.586
- Bezlaj, A., & Fekonja, E. (2023). Musical creativity during the pandemic: Experiences of musicians from Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Slovenia. Bulletin of the Slovenian Ethnological Society, 63(1), 82–94.
Independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph
- Bezlaj, A., & Tadić, D. (2024). Interpersonal dynamics, violence and distrust in a women’s prison in Slovenia. In S. Ćopić & A. Batrićević (Eds.), Prison Environment: A Female Perspective (pp. 145–155). Belgrade: Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research. https://doi.org/10.47152/PrisonLIFE.D4.7_8
Scientific monograph
- Bezlaj, A. (2024). A Place of Ruptures and Bonds: The (Re)Making of a Dublin Suburb (Print ed.). Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press. (Zupanič Library Series, No. 56). ISBN 978-961-297-448-0
