EMPLOYEES
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.
Lior Volinz
researcher
Fields of research: surveillance and policing technologies, digital governance, and the privatization and pluralization of security provision.
Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič
young researcher
Fields of research: criminology and law in times of disruptive technologies, war technologies and hybrid weapons, astro-green criminology, space law, space technology and artificial intelligence, theories on evil and violence, genocide and holocaust studies, international crimes
Manja Skočir
young researcher
Fields of research: criminology, philosophy (of law), maschine ethics, criminology and literature.
Kristina Čufar
researcher
Fields of research: philosophy of law, socio-legal theory, critical legal theory, feminist legal theory, law and the humanities, law and technology, social inequalities, controlled substances.
Kristina Lazarevič Padar
researcher
Fields of research: regulatory compliance, sustainability, personal data protection, restrictive measures and the prevention of money laundering.
Alina Bezlaj
young researcher
Fields of reserach: criminology, prisons, anthropology of space, urban anthropology.
Živa Šketa
young researcher
Fields of research: criminology, migration, labour studies, sociology of law.
Hana Hawlina
researcher
Fields of research: social and cultural psychology, psychological perspectives on social change, theoretical psychology, social representations and imaginaries, illiberalisation, collective imagination.
Marko Balažic
researcher
Fields of research: substantive criminal law and criminal procedural law, criminal sanctions, the relationship between criminal law doctrine and criminal policy, criminology, criminal law and criminal justice.
Luka Gal Prestor
researcher
Fields of research: psychopathology of offenders, the assessment of criminal responsibility, the intersection of law, psychology and mental disorders, and broader issues related to punishment and organized crime.
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.
Visiting scholars
- Asst. prof. Maša Galič (2022), privacy and criminal (procedure) law at the Criminal law and Criminology Department, Vrije Universiteit (VU)
- Dr. Lior Volinz (2021), postdoctoral researcher (Crime and Society - CRiS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Jakub Drapal (2022, 2021, 2020), Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maja Brkan (2020), University of Ljubljana, Faculty of law, Maastricht University
- Jean-Pierre Roux (2024), doctoral researcher, University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh
- Matija Žgur (2024, 2025), postdoctoral researcher, Roma Tre University
Emeritus
- Dragan Petrovec, PhD, Researcher and Professor
- Alenka Šelih, PhD, Researcher and Professor Emeritus
ALUMNI
- dr. Marko Bošnjak: Judge and President of the Court in Strasbourg, ECHR
- dr. Maja Brkan: Judge, General Court, CJEU
- dr. Primož Gorkič: Judge at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia
- dr. Ciril Keršmanc, okrožni sodnik
- dr. Saša Kmet: Judge at the Higher Court in Celje
- Primož Križnar: Master of Law
- Bogomil Brvar: Prof. of mathematics and physics, specialist in criminology (Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana)
