Author: Judita ŽUKAUSKAITĖ
Topic category: Criminology

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

Author: Gintautas SAKALAUSKAS
Topic category: Criminology

Im Aufsatz werden die grundsätzlichen Fragen der Bedingungen im Strafvollzug behandelt und diese als die wichtigen Voraussetzungen für die Integration der Gefangenen in die Gesellschaft betrachtet.

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.

Author: Vincenzo RUGGIERO
Topic category: Criminology

In this article the author argues that the study of the crimes of the powerful may help re-vive critical criminological analyses and discourses. This specific arena of research, in his view, may lead us to experience anti-criminological moments and to elaborate some anti-criminological notions. By anti-criminological moments and notions he simply means those small revolutions in our disciplinary paradigm, those ruptures which throw the discipline into a temporary crisis, before being at times slowly absorbed, thus enriching the discipline itself.

Author: Simonas NIKARTAS
Topic category: Criminology

This article is based on materials of foreign researches and presents an analysis of the role of community in crime reduction. The article is focused on structural elements of the community, such as (1) informal social control, (2) strong community-based (social) relations, (3) and internal potential of community resources (self-sufficiency) within the framework of a concept of strong social ties in a community.

Author: Renata GIEDRYTĖ-MAČIULIENĖ, Judita VENCKEVIČIENĖ
Topic category: Criminology

This article examines the application of restorative justice measures in schools. Schools are one of the major social institutions where different conflicts could be observed. Such conflicts are often resolved by non-constructive measures, e.g., aggression, violence and bullying. The most common response to such behaviour is the punishment of the conflict initiator. However, punishment is not an effective response to such behaviour. It is a merely passive expression which requires a minimal or even completely does not require any consciousness or look for the solutions of the conflict. On the contrary, punishment often leads to greater resistance to the school system and encourages even greater violation of the rules. This article aims to show how conflicts in schools can be effectively resolved by using restorative justice measures, especially one of its models – mediation and why the application of restorative justice measures could be important in Lithuanian schools.

Author: Gintautas SAKALAUSKAS
Topic category: Criminology

Im Aufsatz wird die Tätigkeit der Bewährungshilfe in Litauen analysiert und eine grundsätzliche Frage gestellt, warum die Effizienz ihrer Tätigkeit immer noch nach der registrierten Rückfälligkeit ihrer Klientel beurteilt wird? Zeigt die registrierte Rückfälligkeit der Probanden wirklich die Qualität und Effizienz der Bewährungshilfe? Kann man die registrierte Rückfälligkeit objektiv bemessen oder ist das nur eine wenig was aussagende relative Zahl?

Author: Svetlana Justickaja, Vaidas Kalpokas, Laura Ūselė
Topic category: Criminology

This article deals with the results of the first (national) stage of International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD-2). On the ground of collected data the aspects of Lithuanian studens‘delinquent behaviour and victimization are analysed. The data about prevalence and structure of delinquent behaviour and victimization is presented; also correlations between delinquency, victimization and such social-demographic factors as age, sex, residence (town size) are subject of this analysis.