Author: Helga OBERLOSKAMP
Topic category: Criminology

Mein letztes Forschungsfreisemester verbrachte ich im Sommersemester 2005 als Gast an der Mykolas Romeris Universität in Vilnius. Meine Wahl war auf dieses Land, diese Stadt und diese Hochschule gefallen, weil meine Fakultät mit dem Lehrstuhl für Sozialpolitik an der MRU seit 3 Jahren eine Hochschulpartnerschaft unterhält und ich bereits mehrfach die Möglichkeit gehabt hatte, mich mehr oder weniger flüchtig dort umzusehen.

Author: Simonas NIKARTAS
Topic category: Criminology

The article analyzes different aspects of community crime prevention, referring to the studies conducted by foreign researchers. It also discusses the concept of community crime prevention and its main forms of implementation. The main attention is paid to the effectiveness of this type of crime prevention.

Author: Svetlana JUSTICKAJA
Topic category: Criminology

The aims of this report are: To assess the rate of transition to the modern crime prevention in Lithuania; to reveal factors behind the resistance to this transition.

Author: Margarita DOBRYNINA
Topic category: Criminology

This article discusses one of the most relevant contemporary criminological problems – crime fear. The issue of crime fear emerged four decades ago and became of big importance to political, professional and public discourses.

Author: Vaidas Kalpokas
Topic category: Criminology

Rapid development of modern technologies and changes of social and everyday life are often discussed by social scholars including of those interested in legal and criminological reasearch. Schemes which are usual in a „real“ world often do not apply for the social relationships in virtual reality often referred to as „new social reality“. The article discusses different theoretical points of view and original concepts whether crimes in virtual reality are traditional or innovative.

Author: Ilona MICHAILOVIČ
Topic category: Criminology

The article deals with the problems of the fear of crime in the modern urban society. Various types of insecurities present in big cities have increasingly become a theme of research in criminology and urban sociology.

Author: Judita ŽUKAUSKAITĖ
Topic category: Criminology

This paper discusses aspects of practical mediation, particularly, psychological aspects and benefits.

Author: Aušra Gavėnaitė
Topic category: Criminology

The article represents general overview of critical criminology. It briefly shows in what academic context it has emerged in the United States, Great Britain and continental Europe. The main focus is on critical criminological discourse of 6th –7th decades in the XXth century in continental Europe. The article overviews the main ideas of critical criminology: deconstruction and abolitionism, by representing works of the three eminent Dutch criminologists: W.Bonger, H.Bianchi and L.Hulsman.

Author: Margarita Dobrynina
Topic category: Criminology

The article discusses the problem of criminological knowledge, analyses the role of the politics and government constructing scientific discourse. Starting with the analysis of the power and knowledge interrelationship from the social constructionism theory perspective, the article further deals with the politics and control of criminological knowledge.

Author: Leslie Holmes
Topic category: Criminology

This paper focuses on three related areas, in the analysis of which both political science and criminology can and should constructively interact – corruption, organised crime and corporate crime. All three involve criminality (though, strictly speaking, some forms of corruption do not), and hence need to be analysed by criminologists.