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Recent Developments of Policing in Slovenia

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The goal of this chapter is to present the development of the Slovenian police and policing from a research perspective over the last two decades. Policing in Slovenia has been characterized by changes towards democratic policing practices, and over the last two decades, it has changed significantly, both in conceptual and formal-organizational terms. One of the main characteristics of significant changes of policing in Slovenia is also a rapid development of police research and support of empirical research on police and policing in police reforms in the country. It is important to understand that after two decades of Slovenian independence, changes in the field of police work are still occurring due to new crime and disorder patterns, as well as recent austerity measures which impact on the quality of policing and social control in general.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The conclusions is based on results of broader surveys of public opinion conducted regularly by the Centre for research of public opinion at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, which included questions related to police such as “How much do you trust the police?” and “How satisfied are you with the performance of the police?” (Toš, 1999, 2004).

  2. 2.

    More information about the Slovenian police is available at http://www.policija.si/eng/index.php/publications.

  3. 3.

    The organizational chart is accessible at: http://www.policija.si/eng/images/stories/About%20the%20Police/Organizations/PDF/20120215_OrgGPU_a.pdf.

  4. 4.

     The Code of Police Ethic was adopted by the Slovene police in 2008. For more, see: http://www.policija.si/eng/images/stories/Publications/Kodeks.pdf.

  5. 5.

    The media coverage of the University of Maribor has been characterized by prime time interviews with professors from the Faculty of criminal justice and security who comment on crime, criminality, deviance, and a variety of aspects of (formal) social control.

  6. 6.

    For more see: http://www.fvv.uni-mb.si/en/research/researches.aspx.

  7. 7.

     For more see: http://www.fvv.uni-mb.si/conf2012/PrevConferences.html.

  8. 8.

     For more see: http://www.fvv.uni-mb.si/DV2012/.

  9. 9.

     For more see: www.fvv.uni-mb.si/en.

  10. 10.

     For more see: www.fvv.uni-mb.si/conf2012.

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    Gorazd Meško, Branko Lobnikar, Maja Jere & Andrej Sotlar

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Meško, G., Lobnikar, B., Jere, M., Sotlar, A. (2013). Recent Developments of Policing in Slovenia. 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_15

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