On November 19, 2021, the 7th scientific-professional Conference entitled “CRIMINALISTIC BETWEEN RECONSTRUCTION AND PROGNOSIS OF CRIME AND SECURITY RELEVANT EVENTS” organized by the International Criminalistic Association (ICA) was held in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
The 7th scientific-professional Conference was officially opened by the President of the International Criminalistic Association Mr. Olivije Zimonja. The President thanked everyone who came to enlarge the conference with their participation and presented that the ICA is organizing a Conference in Banja Luka for the first time, as well as organizing a conference in a hybrid model for the first time. The hybrid model enabled participants who were not able to attend live to participate equally in the Conference, thus complementing the content of the Conference with participants from different countries. This year the Conference was held with the participation of exhibitors from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Italy and Germany. This year’s program of the Conference took place through three sessions during which fifteen topics from the field of criminalistic, criminology, criminal law, child protection, missing persons and forensics were presented, as following:
- The Circle Of Life And Death As A Basis For The Procedure Of Hazard Assessment And Determination Of Consequences In The Disappearance Of Persons
- PhD Josip Pavliček, prof. Police College, Zagreb, Croatia
- Andra Žic, bacc. crim. Police College, Zagreb, Croatia
- Specifics of a criminal interview with victims of hate crimes (Case study Police treatment and the LGBT community in Sarajevo Canton)
- PhD Marija Lučić Ćatić, Faculty for Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studies, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- PhD Dina Bajraktarević Pajević, Law Faculty, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Tactical use of evidence during a criminal interview with a suspect
- PhD Lana Milivojević, B.Sc. iur., Police College, Zagreb, Croatia
- Juveniles and drug crime in Serbia – situation and perspectives
- PhD Oliver Lajić, Criminal Police University, Belgrade, Serbia
- PhD Ivana Radovanović, Criminal Police University, Belgrade, Serbia
- MSc, Marija Tasić, Criminal Police University, Belgrade, Serbia
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organized crime
- PhD Nataša Ranitović, Worldwide Association of Women Forensic Experts (WAWFE), Italy
- Presentation of Police Expert Network on Missing Person
- MSc Damjan Miklič, Homicide and Sexual Offences Section in Criminal Police Directorate, Slovenia
- BARNAHUS – Children’s house in Slovenia Comprehensive concept of treatment of a child victim of sexual abuse in the criminal proceedings
- Neža Miklič, Police College, Slovenia
- Center for Missing and Abused Children – Osijek (Croatia)
- Tomislav Ramljak, President of the Center
- International Cold Case Project (ICCP)
- PhD Karsten Bettels, Police Academy, Nienburg, Germany
- Exploring the right to be forgotten in digital world
- PhD Nikola Protrka, Police College in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
- Security of modern data centers on the postulates of CPTED and situational crime theory
- MSc Tilen Belović
- The importance of the reconstruction of the appearance of traces of blood for the qualification of a criminal offense
- PhD Ivana Bjelovuk, Criminal Police University, Belgrade, Serbia
- PhD Tanja Kesić, University of Criminal Police, Belgrade, Serbia
- Forensic toxicology-application of methods in detecting crimes and its role in crime prognosis
- Dragana Milošević, PhD student in Criminal Sciences, Serbia
- Providing evidence in crimes against life and limb
- Mihajlo Rašović, Business and Civil Security, Montenegro
- Rossm’s method and GIS in calculating the most likely starting location of offenders
- MSc Simona Strmečki, Police College, Zagreb, Croatia
- Expert. spec. crim. Antonio Majer, Ministry of the Interior, Croatia
Anyone interested can download the presentations by clicking on the title of the topic, and also a part of the works has already been published in the 15th issue of the journal Criminalistic Theory and Practice
The moderators of the sessions were eminent scientists and experts in the field of criminalistic, law, criminology and forensics:
- PhD Zvonimir Ivanović, Criminal Police University, Belgrade, Serbia
- PhD Elmedin Muratbegović, Faculty for Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studies, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- dipl. ing Robert Praček Ministry of the Interior, Slovenia
The International Criminalistic Association thanks all for their help in the organization and all the participants, presenters, moderators at the extremely informative and productive conference. You can also see part of the conference in the photos that you can download at the link below: