Guest editorial

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Mesko, G. (2009), "Guest editorial", Policing: An International Journal, Vol. 32 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm.2009.18132caa.001

Guest editorial

Article Type: Guest editorial From: Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, Volume 32, Issue 3

About the Guest Editors Gorazd Meško, is Full Professor of Criminology and Dean of the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. His bibliography consists of references on policing, crime prevention, and fear of crime. He has been lecturing criminology and criminology related subjects since 1992. Since 1995 he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, UK (1995, 2001), University of Oxford, UK (1996, 1999), an honorary visiting fellow at the University of Leicester, UK (2005-2008) and a visiting professor at Grand Valley State University, Michigan (2000), University of Sarajevo, B&H (2002-2006) and University of Belgrade, Serbia (2009). He has been a member of CRIMPREV project on crime prevention in the EU since 2006 and contributed significantly in fields of crime prevention, policing, and crime, media and fear of crime. He is currently running a new joint PhD in Criminal Justice and Security at the University of Maribor and the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI).

Chuck Fields is Professor of Criminal Justice in the College of Justice and Safety (since 1997) at Eastern Kentucky University and has formally taught at the California State University, Appalachian State University and Saginaw Valley State University. He holds a PhD in Criminal Justice (1984) from Sam Houston State University. He has authored, edited or co-edited seven texts and monographs, and his current research interests include international drug policy and control, and comparative police culture. Active in the professional associations, he is Past President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association, and has held administrative offices in several regional and national organizations.

This special issue of Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, is the culmination of several years of fruitful cooperation between scholars from Europe and the USA, especially among the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor (Slovenia), Eastern Kentucky University (USA), Department of Criminology, University of Leicester (UK), and GERN, Le Groupement européen de recherche sur les normativités (France). Since 2002, individuals from these institutions have organized four biennial conferences on social control in Ljubljana and Slovenia, with each and every conference being most successful and resulting in numerous international projects and publications. The most recent conference (in September, 2008) was organized at the same time as the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security celebrated its 35th anniversary of studies in the fields of policing, criminal justice, criminology, and security studies. A selection of the best peer reviewed articles are now included in this special issue on Policing and provision of safety/security in South-East Europe, with some emphasis on new managerialism from the UK, which mainly influences other European countries. Excellent scholars from universities and research institutes in Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, the UK and the USA have contributed to this issue and dealt with a variety of social control issues in contemporary Europe, especially South-Eastern Europe. All of the articles here are research-based and support the contention that a high quality social scientific research agenda is also gaining ground in South-Eastern Europe. One of the primary qualities of the articles is based on the fact that some of them are co-authored by authors from divergent cultures, which provide special opportunities for new learning and strengthening collegiality. As for the editors, collaboration with all the authors here has been both educational and rewarding, and we believe the reader will find the articles and research findings from particular parts of Europe most interesting and engaging.Gorazd Meško, Chuck FieldsGuest Editors