Nina Peršak
Biographic Data
| ID | 4421907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Peršak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Peršak |
| SIGNATURE | PERŠAK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Scientific Director and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Criminal-Law Ethics and Criminology, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7715-4276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Emotionalised criminalisation
Emotion plays an increasing role in contemporary law and policy making. While it may sometimes appropriately motivate legislative action, it can also significantly interfere with justice and reasonable governance. Taking the punitive response to ‘reborn dolls’ in Brazil as a case study of a recent harmful sideway of emotion-based criminalisation, we contend that any emotion-based criminalisation must be socially understood, deconstructed and posi…
Protecting the Victims of Gender-based Violence at EU Level
Security governance, harms and resistance
Examining the harmful effects of some existing governance approaches to urban space and various types of resistance to them, we outline a new framework to develop and evaluate security approaches in the city – in particular, towards ‘incivilities’. This framework relies on the redefinition of security, which we extended far beyond the realm of crime to include social security and concerns around vulnerability, sustainability, inclusion and so on,…
The impact of top-down and bottom-up factors in shaping the status of the victim
Victims of crime have seen a significant shift in the criminal justice approaches towards them over time: from rather passive observers of the conflict between the state and the offender to more active agents whose thoughts, wishes and emotions are allowed to be voiced and whose participation is recognised as legitimate in its own right within the criminal process. The article analyses to what extent this empowerment shift is reflected in Sloveni…
New Approaches to Addressing Urban Crime, Disorder and Social Control Responses Thereto
Introduction: Recognising the Sensory and Affective Dimensions of Crime and DisorderSocietal responses to crime, and to disorder in particular, have been traditionally preoccupied with the visual -from Lombroso's controversial phrenological approach to spotting the criminal (l'uomo delinquente) to the penalisation of graffiti and other visual deviance or nuisance.This is particularly salient in the urban setting.In terms of social control, urban …
Carceral Responses to the Pandemic in Europe
Jury Report on the Young Scholar Competition to Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the European Journal for Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space
Pathways to the criminalisation of emotional distress
Covid-19 and the Social Responses thereto
Beyond public punitiveness
The Rule of Law and European Criminal Law in Interaction
EU Criminal Law and Its Legitimation
The increasing legislative activity in the field of eu criminal law has highlighted the need for a coherent and consistent approach to criminalisation, which has been acknowledged by the eu institutions themselves. One of the basic questions all legislators need to tackle, however, is what sorts of conduct can be (legitimately) criminalised. The aim of this article is, firstly, to examine the prevailing substantive criminalisation principle(s) in…
Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities
Introduction The newly designed urban spaces and the modern architectures that can be found in city centres and in regenerated, high-end areas of the city reflect the wants and interests of the mainstream society in which they are embedded. Depending on what societal groups with decision-making powers need or want to do in such city areas, urban spaces (such as squares, city parks and parking lots) and buildings are assigned a particular function…
Rule of Law and Institutional Legitimacy
Recent European events have revealed that some eu Member States, including some South Eastern European ( see ) States, still struggle with the rule of law. While certain rule of law challenges may be due to past legacies and insufficient (or insufficiently successful) transitions, others may be the result of the transition itself and of contemporary socio-economic problems that are experienced across Europe. This article will address the state of…
Regulation of incivilities in the UK, Italy and Belgium
Criminalising Harmful Conduct
This book addresses the issue of legitimate criminalisation in a modern liberal society. The book explores a model structure of criminalisation, the central element of which is the Anglo-American principle called the 'harm principle'. This is elaborated upon, its main elements (particularly 'harm') and functions analysed, and some controversial open questions tackled
EU Criminal Law and Its Legitimation
The increasing legislative activity in the field of eu criminal law has highlighted the need for a coherent and consistent approach to criminalisation, which has been acknowledged by the eu institutions themselves. One of the basic questions all legislators need to tackle, however, is what sorts of conduct can be (legitimately) criminalised. The aim of this article is, firstly, to examine the prevailing substantive criminalisation principle(s) in…
Security governance, harms and resistance
Examining the harmful effects of some existing governance approaches to urban space and various types of resistance to them, we outline a new framework to develop and evaluate security approaches in the city – in particular, towards ‘incivilities’. This framework relies on the redefinition of security, which we extended far beyond the realm of crime to include social security and concerns around vulnerability, sustainability, inclusion and so on,…
Beyond public punitiveness
Criminalising Harmful Conduct
This book addresses the issue of legitimate criminalisation in a modern liberal society. The book explores a model structure of criminalisation, the central element of which is the Anglo-American principle called the 'harm principle'. This is elaborated upon, its main elements (particularly 'harm') and functions analysed, and some controversial open questions tackled
Regulation of incivilities in the UK, Italy and Belgium
Rule of Law and Institutional Legitimacy
Recent European events have revealed that some eu Member States, including some South Eastern European ( see ) States, still struggle with the rule of law. While certain rule of law challenges may be due to past legacies and insufficient (or insufficiently successful) transitions, others may be the result of the transition itself and of contemporary socio-economic problems that are experienced across Europe. This article will address the state of…
Regulation and Social Control of Incivilities
Introduction The newly designed urban spaces and the modern architectures that can be found in city centres and in regenerated, high-end areas of the city reflect the wants and interests of the mainstream society in which they are embedded. Depending on what societal groups with decision-making powers need or want to do in such city areas, urban spaces (such as squares, city parks and parking lots) and buildings are assigned a particular function…
EU Criminal Law and Its Legitimation
The increasing legislative activity in the field of eu criminal law has highlighted the need for a coherent and consistent approach to criminalisation, which has been acknowledged by the eu institutions themselves. One of the basic questions all legislators need to tackle, however, is what sorts of conduct can be (legitimately) criminalised. The aim of this article is, firstly, to examine the prevailing substantive criminalisation principle(s) in…
Beyond public punitiveness
The Rule of Law and European Criminal Law in Interaction
Pathways to the criminalisation of emotional distress
Covid-19 and the Social Responses thereto
Harm and Disorder in the Urban Space
Carceral Responses to the Pandemic in Europe
Jury Report on the Young Scholar Competition to Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the European Journal for Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
New Approaches to Addressing Urban Crime, Disorder and Social Control Responses Thereto
Introduction: Recognising the Sensory and Affective Dimensions of Crime and DisorderSocietal responses to crime, and to disorder in particular, have been traditionally preoccupied with the visual -from Lombroso's controversial phrenological approach to spotting the criminal (l'uomo delinquente) to the penalisation of graffiti and other visual deviance or nuisance.This is particularly salient in the urban setting.In terms of social control, urban …
Security governance, harms and resistance
Examining the harmful effects of some existing governance approaches to urban space and various types of resistance to them, we outline a new framework to develop and evaluate security approaches in the city – in particular, towards ‘incivilities’. This framework relies on the redefinition of security, which we extended far beyond the realm of crime to include social security and concerns around vulnerability, sustainability, inclusion and so on,…
The impact of top-down and bottom-up factors in shaping the status of the victim
Victims of crime have seen a significant shift in the criminal justice approaches towards them over time: from rather passive observers of the conflict between the state and the offender to more active agents whose thoughts, wishes and emotions are allowed to be voiced and whose participation is recognised as legitimate in its own right within the criminal process. The article analyses to what extent this empowerment shift is reflected in Sloveni…
Protecting the Victims of Gender-based Violence at EU Level
Emotionalised criminalisation
Emotion plays an increasing role in contemporary law and policy making. While it may sometimes appropriately motivate legislative action, it can also significantly interfere with justice and reasonable governance. Taking the punitive response to ‘reborn dolls’ in Brazil as a case study of a recent harmful sideway of emotion-based criminalisation, we contend that any emotion-based criminalisation must be socially understood, deconstructed and posi…
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Criminal law (6 works) · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection (5 works) · Harm (5 works)