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Researcher

Nina Persak

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Awards & Distinctions

149 Results

2025

Protecting the victims of gender-based violence at EU level : sexual integrity, consent and the Directive on combatting violence against women and domestic violence

Editorial material

Security governance, harms and resistance : recalibrating security and redefining incivility through legitimacy concerns

Nina PersakAnna Di Ronco

A1 Journal Article in CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The impact of top-down and bottom-up factors in shaping the status of the victim : a study of recent victim empowerment shifts in Slovenia

A2 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF VICTIMOLOGY

2024

Challenges and trends in regulating and addressing sexual and gender crime, offline and online

Gert VermeulenNina PersakStéphanie De Coensel

Editorial material

Criminalisation of the dissemination of non-consensual sexual deepfakes in the European Union : a comparative legal analysis

A2 Journal Article in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT PÉNAL

It’s (not) a man’s world : the EU's failed breakthrough on affirmative sexual consent : caught between gender-specificity and gender equality

Gert VermeulenWannes Bellaert

A2 Journal Article in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT PÉNAL

Swipe, hook-up and harassment : the complex scripts of dating app culture

A2 Journal Article in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT PÉNAL

The policing and reporting of online child sexual abuse material : a scoping review

A2 Journal Article in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT PÉNAL

Tinder tales : exploring the normalisation of online sexual harassment in modern dating

A2 Journal Article in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT PÉNAL

Understanding inceldom : an adapted framework for analysing the incel community within an online radicalisation approach

A2 Journal Article in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT PÉNAL

2021

Artificial intelligence, big data and automated decision-making in criminal justice

Automated justice and its limits : irreplaceable human(e) dimensions of criminal justice

A2 Journal Article in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE DROIT PENAL

Preface : capabilities and limitations of AI in criminal justice

Gert VermeulenNina PersakNicola Recchia

Editorial material

2017

Protection of the environment through criminal law

2016

Criminalising through the back door : normative grounds and social accounts of the incivilities’ regulation

Bookchapter in Regulation and social control of incivilities

Dimensions, concerns and effects of addressing uncivil behaviour through punitive law

Bookchapter in Regulation and social control of incivilities

Human rights limits to the regulation and enforcement of incivilities

Media representations of incivilities in the British and Flemish press

Bookchapter in Regulation and social control of incivilities

Procedural justice elements of judicial legitimacy and their contemporary challenges

A2 Journal Article in ONATI SOCIO-LEGAL SERIES

Regulation and social control of incivilities

Sovražni govor v perspektivi človekovih pravic ter nekatera odprta vprašanja kriminalizacije in pregona

The burkini debate, radicalisation and the freedom to (un)dress: empowering or victimising?

The regulation, representation and enforcement of nuisance : a comparative study

Anna Di RoncoNina PersakGert Vermeulen

The rude, the bad and the ugly : penalising incivilities in Europe

Bookchapter in Regulation and social control of incivilities

Understanding uncivil behaviour through urban culture and space

Bookchapter in Regulation and social control of incivilities

Urban space in the social control of incivilities

Nina PersakAnna Di Ronco

2015

Criminalising through the back door: normative issues of incivility regulation in a comparative perspective

Incivilities and Human Rights

Pamela Davies, Peter Francis and Tanya Wyatt (eds), with Foreword by Nigel South Invisible Crimes and Social Harms

Razvoj viktimologije, njene usmeritve in slepe pege

Bookchapter in Kriminologija

Rule of law and institutional legitimacy : challenges of transition, challenges of Europe

A2 Journal Article in SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

Temida: special issue on invisible victims

Understanding uncivil behaviour through urban culture and space

Victim protection orders: national report Slovenia

2014

Analysing the use of the trafficking victim archetype by Brazil and the Iberian countries

Julie Lima De Perez

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Client criminalisation for guilty knowledge of (trafficking for) sexual exploitation

Gert VermeulenYasmin Van Damme

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to Normalisation?

Criminal law, the victim and community: the shades of 'we' and the conceptual involvement of community in contemporary criminal law theory

A2 Journal Article in CRIMINAL LAW AND PHILOSOPHY

Diverging perspectives, converging thoughts? Common themes and prospects in legitimacy research

Bookchapter in Legitimacy and trust in criminal law, policy and justice : norms, procedures, outcomes

Economic factors of prostitution: money, nature, crisis

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Faces and spaces of prostitution

Nina PersakGert Vermeulen

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Flaws and contradictions in the mutual trust and recognition discourse: casting a shadow on the legitimacy of EU criminal policy making & judicial cooperation in criminal matters?

Bookchapter in Legitimacy and trust in criminal law policy and justice

Judicial legitimacy: between perception and objective criteria

Kroženje znanja za razvoj Slovenije

Legitimacy and trust in criminal law, policy and justice: norms, procedures, outcomes

Legitimacy and trust-related issues of judiciary: new challenges for Europe

Nina PersakJoze Strus

Bookchapter in Legitimacy and trust in criminal law, policy and justice : norms, procedures, outcomes

Neformalna ekonomija in krizni časi: ekonomski izzivi in družbeni odzivi na prostitucijo

A1 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

Norms, harms and disorder at the border: legitimacy of criminal law intervention through the lens of criminalisation theory

Bookchapter in Legitimacy and trust in criminal law, policy and justice : norms, procedures, outcomes

Paternalistic interventions through the law on violations

Bookchapter in Essays on criminalisation & sanctions

Procedural justice elements of judicial legitimacy

Prostitution and its relations with informal economies

Dominique Boels

Prostitution and its relations with informal economies

Dominique Boels

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Prostitution undressed: from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Gert VermeulenNina Persak

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Rationality and normative legitimacy of criminal law

Reframing prostitution: from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Regulating street prostitution as a public nuisance in the 'culture of consumption': a comparative analysis between Birmingham, Brussels and Milan

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Regulating street prostitution as a public nuisance in the 'culture of consumption': a comparative analysis between Birmingham, Brussels and Milan

Regulation of incivilities in the UK, Italy and Belgium: courts as potential safeguards against legislative vagueness and excessive use of penalising powers?

Anna Di RoncoNina Persak

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW CRIME AND JUSTICE

Self-regulation and public-private cooperation in the prostitution sector

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

Shared standards of justice: towards normative indicators of judicial legitimacy at EU level

Shared standards of justice: towards normative indicators of judicial legitimacy at EU level

Bookchapter in Update in de criminologie VII : actuele ontwikkelingen inzake EU-justitiebeleid, cannabisbeleid, misdaad en straf, jongeren en jeugdzorg, internationale vrede, veiligheid en gerechtigheid, gewelddadig extremisme & private veiligheid en zelfregulering

Talking about prostitution and the representation of a (problematic) group : identifying frames in Flemish news coverage on prostitution

Katrien SymonsKristin Gillis

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation

The charter of fundamental rights and EU citizenship: the link with EU law re-examined

Joze StrusNina Persak

Bookchapter in The reconceptualization of European Union citizenship

The framing of prostitution as victimhood and violence for criminalisation purposes

The framing of prostitution as victimhood and violence for criminalisation purposes

Bookchapter in Reframing prostitution : from discourse to description, from moralisation to normalisation?

The legitimacy of the legal system: between subjective trust and objective indicators

Using 'quality of life' to legitimate criminal law intervention: Gauging gravity, defining disorder

Bookchapter in Liberal criminal theory : essays for Andreas von Hirsch

When things get serious: reflections on the legitimacy of local administrative sanctions in Belgium

Tom Vander BekenChristophe Vandeviver

Bookchapter in Legitimacy and trust in criminal law, policy and justice : norms, procedures, outcomes

Whose claim is legitimate anyway? Negotiating power in inter-agency collaboration

Freya Vander Laenen

Bookchapter in Legitimacy and trust in criminal law, policy and justice

2013

'Effectiveness' of judiciary : some missing pieces in the legitimacy-of-justice puzzle

(Criminal) Law in transition: periphery or centrepiece?

75 jaar criminologie aan de Universiteit Gent

Criminalisation of clients and the new moralism: what's harm got to do with it?

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF SEXUAL ETHICS AND POLITICS

De oprichting van een criminologisch instituut te Gent op 10 mei 1938 : een terugblik

Marc CoolsTom Daems

Bookchapter in 75 jaar criminologie aan de Universiteit Gent

Die Kriminalisierung der unterlassenen Hilfeleistung: ein solidaritätsbasierter Ansatz

Bookchapter in Solidarität im Strafrecht : Zur Funktion und Legitimation strafrechtlicher Solidaritätspflichten

Internationalisation of UGent criminology

Bookchapter in 75 jaar criminologie aan de Universiteit Gent

Legitimacy and effectiveness of judiciary: some criminologically less visible aspects and new challenges for Europe highlighted

Legitimacy and trust in criminal justice: challenges and ways ahead

Nico Gunzburg : 'Ik heb een huis : wil U het hebben?'

Marc CoolsPaul Ponsaers

Bookchapter in 75 jaar criminologie aan de Universiteit Gent

OSCRUG wordt Crimilumni : 60 jaar alumnivereniging van studenten criminologie

Christophe Vandevivermaria De SterckStijn Van Daele

Bookchapter in 75 jaar criminologie aan de Universiteit Gent

Prof. dr. Paul Ghysbrecht : decennialang mee het gezicht van het Gentse criminologieonderwijs

Brice De Ruyver

Bookchapter in 75 jaar criminologie aan de Universiteit Gent

Prostitution in times of economic crisis: effects, human agency and societal responses

Bookchapter in Getting by or getting rich? The formal, informal and criminal economy in a globalized world

Regulation of incivilities: courts as potential safeguards against legislative vagueness and excessive use of penalising powers

Anna Di RoncoNina Persak

Wat als er honderd jaar criminologie aan de Universiteit Gent was?

Tom Vander BekenLieven Pauwels

Bookchapter in 75 jaar criminologie aan de Universiteit Gent

Editorial material

2012

'The price of sex': on trafficking for sexual exploitation purposes

Nena FosterNina PersakAn van DienderenJelena von Helldorff

Building justice through criminal law: issues of criminalisation and trust

Bookchapter in Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe? Processes of criminalisation within Central and Eastern European societies

Emotions and criminal law: legislation practices triggered by victims

Internetne vabe in prevare ali kako dober glas seže v deveto vas

A4 Journal Article in PAMFIL

Norms, harms and disorder at the border: legitimacy of state criminal-law intervention through the lens of criminalisation theory

Omejevanje prostitucije na strani povpraševanja: ekonomija, morala in nasilje

A1 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

Paternalistic interventions through the law on violations

Prostitution in times of economic crisis: effects, human agency and societal responses

Prostitution, harm and the criminalisation of clients

Bookchapter in Update in de criminologie VI : actuele ontwikkelingen inzake EU-strafrecht, veiligheid & preventie, politie, strafprocedure, prostitutie en mensenhandel, drugsbeleid en penologie

Prostitution, harm and the criminalisation of clients

Security, liberty, and the unfortunate balancing metaphor

The disqualifications triad: approximating legislation, executing requests, ensuring equivalence

Gert VermeulenWendy De BondtCharlotte RyckmanNina Persak

The European concept and right to security

2011

Managing insecurities and expectations: social trust and judiciary in transition

Bookchapter in Shaken order : authority and social trust in post-communist societies (case studies in law) 2007-2009

Varnost cestnega prometa

Ljubo BavconBogomil BrvarMitja MuršičNina PersakDragan PetrovecTatjana Polak

Človeški dejavnik prometne (ne)varnosti : družbena zaželenost, delovno okolje in osebnost

A1 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

Čustvenost nasilnega ravnanja v cestnem prometu

Mitja MuršičNina Persak

Bookchapter in Varnost cestnega prometa

2010

Criminalising harmful conduct: the harm principle, its limits and continental counterparts

In den Nebengebieten des Strafrechts: Paternalistische Interventionen im Recht der Ordnungswidrigkeiten

Bookchapter in Paternalismus im Strafrecht : die Kriminalisierung von selbstschädigendem Verhalten

Otroška pornografija in spolni 'grooming': pravni in družbeni odzivi

Viktimalizacija prostitutk in sramotenje izjem: mit o prostitutki-žrtvi

A1 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

2009

Contemporary crime prevention: some popular myths and conceptual contradictions

Bookchapter in Crime policy, crime control and crime prevention : Slovenian perspectives

Virtualnost, (ne)moralnost in škodljivost : normativna vprašanja nekaterih oblik kibernetične kriminalitete

A1 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

Človekove pravice v 21. stoletju: ali lahko preživijo (varnost)?

A2 Journal Article in PRAVNIK

2008

Varnost, vzemirjenost in kazenskopravni odziv

A2 Journal Article in VARSTVOSLOVJE

Človekove pravice v 'vojni proti terorju'

2007

Criminalising harmful conduct: the harm principle, its limits and continental counterparts

Krijumčarenje ljudi : između migracija i globalne sigurnosne prijetnje

Bookchapter in Sigurnost i suradnja kao reakcija na organizirani kriminalitet u srednjoj i jugoistočnoj Europi : zbornik radova = Security and cooperation as a reaction to organised crime in Central and South Eastern Europe

Kriminološki vidici (ne)sigurnosti ili sigurnost kao potreba, mit i paradoks

Bookchapter in Sigurnost i suradnja kao reakcija na organizirani kriminalitet u srednjoj i jugoistočnoj Europi : zbornik radova = Security and cooperation as a reaction to organised crime in Central and South Eastern Europe

Sigurnost i suradnja kao reakcija na organizirani kriminalitet u srednjoj i jugoistočnoj Europi : zbornik radova

Sodobne usmeritve kazenskega materialnega prava

Alenka ŠelihMatjaž AmbrožLjubo BavconIvan BeleMarko BošnjakKatja FilipčičMatjaž JagerVid JakulinDamjan KorošecPolona Mozetič et al.

Trgovina z ljudmi : problematika obstoječega zakonskega besedila in potencialne nove spremembe

Bookchapter in Sodobne usmeritve kazenskega materialnega prava

Škodljivost dejanja kot vrednostno merilo inkriminiranja

Bookchapter in Sodobne usmeritve kazenskega materialnega prava

2006

Normativni vidiki tihotapljenja ljudi in reakcij nanj

A2 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

Postmoderni diskurzi (ne)varnosti

A2 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

Ženske, droge in zapor : interakcije in kontraindikacije

Bookchapter in Droge, zapori, ženske : postmoderna družba in njene zasvojenosti

2005

Discipliniranje v družbi tveganj: panoptikon, sinoptikon in subjekt

A2 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

Hillyard, Pantazis, Tombs, Gordon (ur.) : beyond criminology - taking harm seriously: (Onstran kriminologije - resno upoštevanje škode)

Potek kazenskih postopkov v Sloveniji : analiza stanja in predlogi za spremembe

Marko BošnjakNina PersakSonja KotnikMitja MuršičTina PrešerenNataša SkubicPolona MozetičAna Burgar

Slovenia: national report

Bookchapter in Missing and sexually exploited children in the enlarged EU : epidemiological data in the new member states

Systémy trestní justice v Evropě a Severní Americe : Slovinsko

Katja ŠugmanMatjaž JagerNina PersakKatja Filipčič

Trgovina z ljudmi in migracije : pogled od spodaj

Bookchapter in Kriminaliteta, družbeno nadzorstvo in postmodernizacijski procesi

Učinkovitost sodišča v luči strukturnih in subjektivnih določilnic posameznikove delovne uspešnosti

Bookchapter in Potek kazenskih postopkov v Sloveniji : analiza stanja in predlogi za spremembe = * Criminal proceedings in Slovenia : the analysis of the current state and recommendations for amendment

2004

'Pravni paternalizem' in 'pravni moralizem' kot podlaga inkriminiranja

A2 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

(Ne)primerni načini in podlage inkriminiranja

Bookchapter in Znanstveno delo podiplomskih študentov v Sloveniji : 'publish or perish!' : knjiga povzetkov

Conditional and/or suspended sentence and probation

Bookchapter in Criminal justice systems in Europe and North America : Slovenia

Criminal justice systems in Europe and North America: Slovenia

Katja ŠugmanMatjaž JagerNina PersakKatja Filipčič

In defence of liberal democracy: the Machiavellianism of the 'war on terrorism'

Bookchapter in Threats and phantoms of organized crime, corruption and terrorism : critical European perspectives

ISPAC international conference: organized crime and humanitarian disasters (Courmayeur Mont Blanc, Italy, 3-5 December 2004)

Nekateri problematični konceptualni vidiki in popularni miti sodobnih smeri prevencije

Plans for reform

Bookchapter in Criminal justice systems in Europe and North America : Slovenia

Razvoj sodobne biomedicine in kazensko pravo

Slovenski kazenskopravni sistem v angleščini

The prison system and after-care of prisoners

Bookchapter in Criminal justice systems in Europe and North America : Slovenia

2003

Inkriminiranje na podlagi načela 'offence principle' v angloameriškem pravnem sistemu

A2 Journal Article in ZBORNIK ZNANSTVENIH RAZPRAV (PRAVNA FAKULTETA. 1991)

O novodobnem suženjstvu, tihotapljenju in izkoriščanju ljudi

A2 Journal Article in REVIJA ZA KRIMINALISTIKO IN KRIMINOLOGIJO

Prevara 419 ali (r)evolucija neke goljufije

A2 Journal Article in PRAVNA PRAKSA

Tihotapljenje blaga in ljudi

A2 Journal Article in PRAVNA PRAKSA

2000

Procesna sposobnost in neprištevnost

Bookchapter in Ustavno kazensko procesno pravo : sodni primeri, dokumenti, komentarji in gradiva s področja ustavnega in mednarodnega kazenskega procesnega prava slovenskih, evropskih, severnoameriških in mednarodnih sodišč = Constitutional criminal procedure : case-law, documents, commentary and papers on constitutional and international criminal procedure of Slovene, European, North-American and international courts

Ustavno kazensko procesno pravo : sodni primeri, dokumenti, komentarji in gradiva s področja ustavnega in mednarodnega kazenskega procesnega prava slovenskih, evropskih, severnoameriških in mednarodnih sodišč

Boštjan M ZupančičGoran KlemenčičPeter PavlinAleš M JekličPetja ToškanBoštjan RejcSaša SeverAndrej Auersperger MatićNina PersakMitja Jelenič Novak et al.

1999

Deterministična podstat nekaterih kazenskopravnih institutov

A2 Journal Article in PRAVNIK

Marginalizacija etike : ali kako in zakaj se morala prevaja v jezik politike, prava, trga in medijev

A2 Journal Article in 2000

Pravna determiniranost z vsebinskega, formalnega in statusnega vidika

A2 Journal Article in 2000

1996

Procesna sposobnost in neprištevnost

Bookchapter in Ustavno kazensko procesno pravo = Constitutional criminal procedure

Ustavno kazensko procesno pravo

Boštjan M ZupančičMatjaž NahtigalGoran KlemenčičPetja ToškanPeter PavlinAleš M JekličSaša SeverBoštjan RejcJanez StarmanNina Persak et al.