Katedra Socjologii Prawa

Prof. dr. iur. Thomas Feltes M.A. studied law and social sciences and worked at the universities of Bielefeld, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Tuebingen and Berlin. From 1992 until 2002, he was the rector of a police university with 1.200 police students and more than 60 professors in Germany. Since 2002 he is University Professor and Head of the Department of Criminology, Criminal Policy and Police Science at the Law Faculty in Bochum, lecturing law students and responsible for two advanced Master Programs a) in Criminology and Police Science and b) in Criminal Justice, Governance, and Police Science (in English). He worked for OSCE, UN, EU, Council of Europe, NGO´s, ministries and international institutions in all aspects of law enforcement and justice and as an advisor for police training, COP and police reform worldwide. Feltes is member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology. Since 1998 he is the editor of the "Police Newsletter", a monthly published e-Mail- and Internet-Newsletter on Police and Criminology in German, English, French and Spanish. He published 15 books and over 160 articles on juvenile law, sentencing, alternative sanctions, public prosecution, policing. More information available at: www.thomasfeltes.de; www.rub.de/kriminologie; www.police-newsletter.com.

Fabienne L.R. Coenders, MSc is a research officer at the Ruhr University in Bochum (RUB),  Germany. In the name of professor Feltes, she currently leads two working packages in the ICT4COP project: WP5 and WP10. Coenders holds a bachelor's degree in sociology as well as a research master's degree in social and cultural science (bene meritum), completed at the 
Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands. Finally, she has recently taken the first steps towards her doctorate degree as a PhD  student.

Janina Czapska is a professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University and a Humboldt Foundation fellow. In years 2010-2013, she was Head of the Department of Criminalists and Public Security and since Oct. 2014 the Head of the Department of Sociology of Law at the Faculty. She specializes in the research on the social aspects of legislative, application and compliance with the law with particular emphasis on local security, fear of crime and police, and has taken part in three European projects relating to the issue. One of her main topics of research in recent years is also penal populism. Czapska has edited books in Polish on crime prevention (for example CPTED), national and municipal police, and mediation. Currently she is preparing the book "The Thin line? The future of policing" considering three proactive policing strategies: COP, problem- oriented policing and intelligence-led policing.

Tomasz Kwoka is a Ph.D. in Linguistics. In 2004, he graduated from Master’s studies in Serbian Philology in the Institute of Slavic Philology of the Jagiellonian University. In the same year, he started doctoral studies in the Faculty of Philology under the supervision of professor Wiesław Boryś. He defended his doctoral thesis The history of Serbian vocabulary in the field of social relations (from the end of the 12th century to the beginning of the 20th century) in the end of 2008. Since 2009 he has worked in the Institute of Slavic Philology of the Jagiellonian University, first, until 2012, as an assistant lecturer with doctorate, then, as an assistant professor. In years 2004-2012, he taught in the Institute of Neophilology of the Pedagogical University in Krakow (in the studies in Russian Philology with Rusyn language). Since 2012, he has also worked as a sworn translator of Serbian. His academic interests include the history of the Serbian language and the contemporary condition of the Serbian and post-Serbian-Croatian languages, as well as the culture and politics of contemporary Serbia, Serbian pop culture and Balkan-Pannonian cuisine. Currently, his interests focus on Vojvodina – the history and culture of this multi-cultural region, languages of its ethnic minorities and the history of Novi Sad. He is the author of 25 scientific papers and a few books, among others, of three volumes of The History of Vocabulary in the Field of Social Relation in Serbia and Montenegro: Vol. 1.: Kin and Society, WUJ, Kraków 2012; Vol. 2.: State and Administration, WUJ, Kraków 2013 and Vol. 3.: Army, Church, Services and Property, WUJ, Kraków 2015. He has also written a guide to Serbia: Serbia. On the crossroads of cultures, Helion (Bezdroża), Gliwice 2014. He was the editor of three scientific volumes, he organized 9 international scientific conferences and a few student academic trips to Serbia. He cooperates with Golem Seria (a series of translations of world’s literature into Lemko) and with the Foundation Old Road (journals and materials for kids in Lemko).

Katarzyna Struzińska is a research associate at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research interests revolve around social psychology, police science, victimology, gender mainstreaming and sociology of law. Her current projects focus on the relation between law and literature. Katarzyna holds a Bachelor's degree in in Russian Studies and two Master's degrees in Law and Russian Studies (concentration: culture of Russia and neighbouring nations) from the Jagiellonian University. In October 2011, she got from the Polish Academy of Sciences and Foundation Gender Center first award in the competition for the best thesis about gender for her Master Thesis in Law - The situation of rape victim in Poland. Stereotypes about raped people, their rights and possible ways of supporting them. Katarzyna also completed postgraduate studies in Gender Mainstreaming at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She was the executive team member in the allPoland research project "Coordination of Local Action for Security, with Particular Focus on Crime Prevention" (2011-2014). In her free time Katarzyna enjoys studying foreign languages – she already speaks English, Russian and German.

• Robin Hofmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) – worked on case country Kosovo.
• Monika Skrzeszewska (Uniwerystet Jagielloński) – worked on case country Serbia.