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Introduction to Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe

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In the mid-1990s, the College of Police and Security studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia, began organizing a biennial international conference on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe which became a traditional police studies event which grew beyond its primary boundaries and became a conference on Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe in 2012.

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    For more information, see web pages of the conferences on Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe (previously Policing in Central and Eastern Europe, 1996–2010): www.fvv.uni-mb.si/conf2012; www.fvv.uni-mb.si/conf2010; www.fvv.uni-mb.si/conf 2008; www.fvv.uni-mb.si/conf2006.

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Meško, G., Fields, C.B., Lobnikar, B., Sotlar, A. (2013). Introduction to Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Meško, G., Fields, C., Lobnikar, B., Sotlar, A. (eds) Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6720-5_1

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