Crime and Transition in Central and Eastern Europe

Dr. Alenka Selih, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and member of the Acedemia Europea, London. Her research interests include criminology, victimology and criminal law. She has published extensively in different languages. Prof. Selih introduced into Slovenian criminology as well as into criminal  law new topics e.g. children's rights, victimology, women's issues, community sanctions. In the eighties, she was active in the first human rights movements in the country. She cooperated with the Council of Europe bodies in crime problems and served as member of differents bodies of the International Society of Criminology, Association Internationale de Droit penal and European Society of Criminology.  She is editorial board member of two  Slovenian legal journals and member of the editorial board of the European Journal  on Criminal Policy and Research.

Dr. Ales Zavrsnik, Assistant Professor, is a researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. He is a postdoctoral Yggdrasil fellow at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at University of Oslo (2012) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, Freiburg i. Br. (2009) and a fellow of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva (2008). At the moment he collaborates in the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action "Living in Surveillance Societies" and the COST Action "Cyberbullying". Ales Zavrsnik edited a book Crime and Technology: How Computers Transform Surveillance and Privacy, Crime and Crime Control? (2010) and published a book Homo Criminalis: Images of a Criminal in High-Tech Risk Society (2009). He has researched and published on theoretical criminology, criminal law and "law and technology", i.e. cybercrime, cyber-law and surveillance. He is a member of the