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Author: Vaidas KALPOKAS
Topic category: Criminology
The growing society’s dependence upon fluent functioning of IT infrastructure shows the need to regulate digital space. It is also related to the interests of national security (protection of objects of critical infrastructure) and to the creation of safer environment for users. The author of the article draws attention to the need of constant and conscious communication among all the players at the international and local levels. The systemic approach while the roles and responsibilities are distributed among the different levels of security is the main premise of such communication.
Author: Simonas NIKARTAS
Topic category: Criminology
Article is devoted to an analysis of the influence of religion, as a factor of informal social control, in preventing crime as well as of the main forms and conditions of this influence. Preventive effect of religion is being analysed on three levels: religion as a social phenomenon, individual religiosity and targeted religious activities.
Author: Svetlana Justickaja, Aušra Gavėnaitė
Topic category: Criminology
The article gives an overview of the current situation of recidivism studies and researches in Lithuania. It also presents some insights for possible directions of national research development in future.
Author: Evaldas VISOCKAS
Topic category: Criminology
The article analyses trust and confidence in institutions of criminal justice system in Lithuania.
Author: Milda BURNYTĖ
Topic category: Criminology
This article examines the problem of low trust in political and legal institutions in Lithuania. In the context of European countries, Lithuania has one of the lowest rates of trust in political and legal institutions.
Author: Aušra Pocienė, Margarita Dobrynina
Topic category: Criminology
The article presents socio-demographic portrait of convicted who have been accused for the drug related crime in Lithuania. The portrait has been composed on the basis of Lithuanian data of criminal cases (2005–2009). It makes an alternative for the official statistical data which is too aggregated and imprecise in order to measure correlation between individual features and kind of crime or sentence.