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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.