"The contributors to Crime and transition in Central and Eastern Europe analyze changes in criminal activities and crime control strategies in the region, explain the political background underlying these developments, and assess their long-term social impact. Experts from Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina discuss the politicization of crime, the ongoing paradoxes regarding civil liberties, and the future of crime policy in comparative and country-specific terms.
Among the topics featured in the book, crime and crime control in transitional countries, politics, the media, and public perception of crime, surveillance from national security to private industry, penal policy and political change, emerging trends, economic and organized crime, human trafficking, juvenile delinquency, new perspectives on corruption in the region."
