Balkan Homicide Study
Head(s) of Project(s): Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Albrecht; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Getoš Kalac
Status: ongoing
In 2016, the Max Planck Partner Group for Balkan Criminology started a new empirical study on homicide in eight South-Eastern European countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania,…
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Mapping the Criminological Landscape of the Balkans
Head(s) of Project(s): Assoc. Prof. Getoš Kalac
Status: finalized
One of the core reasons for establishing the MPPG was to boost criminological and criminal justice research throughout the Balkans. Such an endeavour would of course have to be able…
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Violence in Southeast Europe
Head(s) of Project(s): Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anna-Maria Getoš Kalac
Status: ongoing
A strong perception about Southeast Europe considers the region as an area with relatively higher levels of violence in comparison with the rest of the continent. The main objective of…
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Economic Espionage in Europe(WISKOS Croatia)
Head(s) of Project(s): Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Jörg Albrecht
Status: ongoing
The phenomenon of economic espionage is as diffuse and ambiguous as the terminology itself. Besides scenarios of ‘classic’ espionage by intelligence agencies of a foreign state, it also includes incidents…
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Responsibility of Political Parties for Criminal Offences
Head(s) of Project(s): Aleksandar Maršavelski
Status: ongoing
This project focuses on the models of responsibility of political parties for criminal offences. Political parties typically engage in violence (e.g. oppression in totalitarian settings, hatecrime of extremist political parties…
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