Gorazd Me\u0161ko, is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Maribor inSlovenia. He has served as the Head of the Chair of Criminology since 2005and previously held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Criminal Justiceand Security from 2007 to 2015. He earned his PhD in Social Education andCriminology from the University of Ljubljana in 1998. Prior to his academiccareer, Me\u0161ko served in the Slovenian Police from 1984 to 2003, providinghim with a practical foundation that actively connects criminological theorywith policymaking and professional practice. <\/p>\n
An internationally recognised scholar, Me\u0161ko specialises in police legitimacyand self-legitimacy, community and evidence-based policing, environmentalcriminology, and urban\u2013rural diff erences in crime. His ongoing researchinitiatives span global contexts, including multi-year projects on local safetyand security, legitimacy in prisons, and rural criminology in India. Hemaintains an extensive publication record, authoring and editing numerousbooks and journal articles on topics ranging from prison workers’ self-legitimacy to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and criminal justicesystems. Me\u0161ko is a prominent leader within the internationalcriminological community, currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Criminal Investigation and Criminology and having served as thePresident of the European Society of Criminology from 2017 to 2019. <\/p>\n
His extensive contributions to the fi eld have been widely celebrated,earning him the ASC Division of Rural Criminology’s Ralph Weisheit LifetimeAchievement Award in 2025, the ACJS G. O. W. Mueller Award forInternational Criminal Justice in 2024, the ASC Freda Adler DistinguishedScholar Award in 2022, and the Zois Award for Excellence in Social Sciencesin 2014 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":796,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-797","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}