Marina Kovacevic-Lepojevic

Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade, Serbia

School-based programs focused on externalizing problems in students are recognized as an important part of school life and work. The aim of this paper is the systematization of scientific studies in the form of systematic presentations and meta-analysis of school programs, in which externalising problems in students is among the criteria for assess...

Positive youth development and socioemotional learning stand out as the most systematic and comprehensive approaches to well-being of children and adolescents. The aim of this paper is to con-sider the relationship between the socioemotional learning and positive youth development. Based at the systematization of scientific studies in the form of s...

New scientific and technological developments have provided a clearer insight into the functioning of the human body. Research into human genetic predispositions, genome mapping, and brain function research have all contributed to explaining human behavior. The results of studies in recent years have unequivocally shown that genetic and social fact...

Previous research recognises poor parental monitoring, negative parental upbringing practices and insecure attachment as risk factors of great importance for understanding externalising problems in adolescence. The aim of the research is to understand the role that affective attachment to parents plays in the interpretation of the relationship betw...

Background/Aim. Modern conceptualising of parenting in relation to manifesting adolescence externalising problems is based on parent-child two-way communication, mutual trust and parental involvement. A lot of research reports prove independent contribution of parental variables on expressing externalising problems in middle and late adolescence wh...

Parental monitoring is recognised as one of the most important family factors that are associated with rule-breaking behaviour. The objective of this paper is to determine the nature of correlations between parental monitoring and its key components (parents’ knowledge, child disclosure, parental solicitation and parental control) and rule-breaking...

Dostupnost psihoaktivnih supstanci (PAS) predstavlja rizični faktor koji je na osnovu brojnih longitudinalnih istraživačkih studija identifikovan kao prediktor njihove zloupotrebe i nasilničkog ponašanja. Empirijski podaci idu u pravcu zaključaka da veća dostupnost PAS u lokalnoj zajednici, prvenstveno cigareta, alkohola i marihuane povećava verova...

U skladu sa ciljevima studijskog programa Prevencija i tretman poremećaja ponašanja Fakulteta za specijalnu edukaciju i rehabilitaciju (FASPER) i očekivanim kompetencijama diplomiranih studenata, koji se odnose na ovladavanje znanjima i veštinama u radu sa osobama sa poremećajima ponašanja, u nastavnoj bazi Specijalna bolnica za bolesti zavisnosti...

Objectives. The present study investigated the relative importance of multiple aspects of personal resiliency for the development of externalising and internalising adjustment problems in adolescence. Subjects and setting. The sample comprised 805 adolescents (45.2% boys and 54.8% girls) from seven high schools in Kraljevo, Serbia. The mean age of...

Model tehnološkog pragmatizma pretpostavlja svest o tome da tehnološki razvoj sa sobom nosi brojne dobrobiti, ali i opasnosti sa druge strane. Većina savremenih bezbednosnih tehnologija u svojoj suštini predstavlja sredstvo masovnog nadzora građana, pri čemu može doći do kompromitovanja značajne količine ličnih podataka usled odsustva ili nedovoljn...

The model of technological pragmatism assumes awareness that technological development involves both benefits and dangers. Most modern security technologies represent citizens' mass surveillance tools, which can lead to compromising a significant amount of personal data due to the lack of institutional monitoring and control. On the other hand, peo...

U radu se istražuje postojanje i priroda povezanosti eksternalizovanih i internalizovanih problema u detinjstvu. Uzorak čini 89 dečaka i devojčica, uzrasta od pet do sedam godina. Podaci su prikupljeni od vaspitača i nastavnika primenom instrumenta ASEBA, verzija za nastavnike (TRF). Rezultati svedoče o statistički značajnim pozitivnim korelacija...

The public debate the influences of the Internet as a very attractive medium for children and adolescents is still open. Advocated its educational potential, opportunities to connect with peers and adults, promoting social and other life skills, while on the other hand emphasized its harmful effects on personal and social functioning, "threats" tha...

Biometric technologies enable automatic identification of people based on their biological characteristics and behavior. Fingerprinting, face recognition and iris scanning, are recognized as the most popular. Less frequently in use are hand geometry, retina, signature, voice, vein, gait, smell, ear structure, etc. Biometric data are particular sens...

Introduction of video surveillance in Serbia is followed by a weak and conflicting regulations. In compliance with principle of legality, design and development of video surveillance should be in consistence with existing international legislation accompanied by proper national, regional, local legislation and jurisprudence regarding data protecti...

According to previous research results about the implementation of security technology, Serbia is far behind EU countries. Scientists and experts suggests that it might be the reflection of decades of economic crises and at the other side present distrust in new technologies. The purpose of this research is to reach the Academy of Criminalistics a...

Purpose: Recent crime control ideas include biometric identification, closed circuit television (CCTV), automatic face recognition, scanning, locating technologies, etc. However, there is a lack of the research evidences on their benefits, disadvantages and their possible overcoming. Research on public perception of CCTV mostly focus on the dilem...

Purpose: The Internet of Things (IoT) is an ambient in which everyday objects such as phones, cars, household appliances, even food and clothes are wirelessly connected to one another and can collect and share data. Radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies – particularly NFC - are seen as prerequisite of the IoT. Near Field Communication...

Savremeni trend inkluzivnog obrazovanja potencira značaj ispravne i pravovremene identifikacije učenika sa smetnjama u razvoju. Procena prethodi izradi individualnog obrazovnog plana i primeni usluga i intervencija dodatne podrške u obrazovanju i vaspitanju ovih učenika. Stoga, izbor kriterijuma i instrumenata na osnovu kojih se vrši identifikacija...

A modern trend in crime control includes a variety of technological innovations, including video surveillance systems. The aim of this paper is to review the implementation of video surveillance in contemporary context, considering fundamental theoretical aspects, the legislation and the effectiveness in controlling crime. In considering the theore...

Problem utvrđivanja istinitosti iskaza maloletnih učesnika u krivičnom postupku u literaturi je relativno zapostavljen. Pri proceni iskaza maloletnika stručnjaci najčešće razmatraju neverbalne simptome, promene u govoru i analizu sadržaja izjave. Međutim kako ni jedan neverbalni simptom ne mora nužno da upućuje na lažno izveštavanje, analiza sadrža...

Analizom istraživanja i stručne prakse može se uočiti da je proces detekcije laganja kod dece u kriminalnom kontekstu vrlo složen. Deca spadaju u posebno osetljivu kategoriju žrtava i svedoka u krivičnom postupku. Prema tome, intervjuisanju dece i problemu utvrđivanja verodostojnosti iskaza treba posvetiti posebnu naučnu i stručnu pažnju. Problem l...

Along with the technology progress, changes in perpetrating traditional crimes and emerging new criminal acts, major changes in crime control occurred. Negativization of the risk concept and spreading the fear of crime contribute to the supportive attitudes of experts and citizens on the use of modern technologies in order to reduce potential victi...

Modern trends in crime control include a variety of technological innovations, including video surveillance systems. The aim of this paper is to review the implementation of video surveillance in contemporary context, considering fundamental theoretical aspects, the legislation and the effectiveness in controlling crime. While considering the theor...

The concept of situational crime prevention emerged in the ’70s, gaining its’ popularity in the last few decades. Rising interest of the scientific and professional circles for situational prevention is followed by its' simplicity for understanding and implementation, low cost and effectiveness in the prevention and crime reduction. Special benefit...

Considering of the situational aspects of crime control started in '70 of XX. In the last few decades it's been fully reaffirmed. Increasing of its popularity in the circles of scientists and experts, is followed by methodological simplicity, applicability, precision, economy, effectiveness in crime prevention and reduction. Consequently, situation...

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to analyze and evaluate the role of the school police officers in prevention of crimes, misdemeanors and other incidents in elementary and secondary schools in Serbia. The introduction of school police officers in Serbia started with an experimental program in some schools in 2002. Today there are a total of...

Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, etc. attract millions of users, enable establishing of many friendships, love affairs and other relationships of interest, becoming important part of everyday routine of the individuals. Hundreds of social networking sites exist with continual enhancement of the number of users and t...

The most of the children in the world and in Serbia use the Internet on daily base for a diverse range of purposes like the homework tasks, interacting with peers, downloading games, music and the other entertainment contents. The results of the research show that 10 -25% of children that have the access to Internet experienced the violence, increa...

School crime surveillance measures increase the risk to the offender, change his perception of the risk of being detected and caught. The purpose of the research is to assess the existence and quality of application of crime surveillance measures (formal, secondary, natural) in elementary and secondary schools in the city of Novi Sad in Serbia. The...

Children around the world almost daily access to social networking sites in order to achieve interpersonal interactions with peers. Social networking can contribute to the development of creativity, self-efficacy, various academic achievements, self-esteem, tolerance for diversity and social skills of children, but are also at risk of abuse and vio...

With introduction of the internet addiction notion started in the middle of ’90s first given by American author Kimberly Young. However, recognition of the internet addiction phenomenon and its mechanism has begun few decades earlier. Internet addiction was presented by different notions like obsessive-compulsive disorder, problematic, pathological...

This paper is based on the systematic review of the contemporary literature on the conduct disorders in childhood. At the beginning, existing diagnostic classification systems and characteristics of the specific conduct disorders type were considered. Data on prevalence was presented followed by proper discussion on perceived differences based on t...

Subjektivan doživljaj blagostanja i sreće teško je, ako ne i nemoguće, ispitati kod dece sa intelektualnom ometenošću predškolskog uzrasta. Stoga se podaci o emocionalnim stanjima ispitanika sniženih intelektualnih sposobnosti uglavnom dobijaju ispitivanjem roditelja ili drugih bliskih osoba. Ovo istraživanje, pretežno eksplorativnog tipa, sprovede...

Rad je posvećen sagledavanju učestalosti i karakteristika eksternalizovanih problematičnih ponašanja tokom detinjstva. Uzorak čini 89 dečaka i devojčica, uzrasta 5-7 godina. Podaci o ponašanju dece prikupljeni su od vaspitača i nastavnika primenom instrumenta ASEBA – TRF. Najvažniji rezultati istraživanja su: 75% dece ispoljava eksternalizovana pon...

Public area surveillance is grounded in the situational crime prevention, one of the four main directions in crime prevention. Situational prevention is aimed to identify, manage and control factors involved with criminal behavior. Indirectly, prevention effect is materialized through development of informal social control and environment cohesion...

The most of contemporary authors consider anger as complex, multidimensional construct consisted of emotional, cognitive and behavioral components with some distinctions in the notion determination. The main problems involved with anger control are: arguing with others, defiantly, hostile behavior, negativism, etc. The results of the previous resea...

At the beginning of the article the white-collar crime notion is considered, complexity of the phenomenon, social changes influence to its conception. Advantage is given to studying of situational variables, opportunistic nature of the act of white-collar crime and the elements involved in crime commitment. Afterwards, the authors are considering t...

Пораст популарности превентивних метода у реакцији друштва на криминалитет у основи има концепт “друштва ризика”, „друштва превенције”, које као такво представља скупину појединаца са императивом да се „понашају превентивно“. Ствара се клима у којој се руши традиционална представа учиниоца и жртве, при чему свако може постати жртва и/или учинилац,...

Trafficking in persons presents a complex and serious social problem, which is faced by all the countries in the world. However, as a consequence of numerous diffi culties that both researchers and practitioners who are coming into contact with victims or potential victims of traffi cking are facing, it is not easy to establish its true scope and c...

The aim of this paper is to present research founding’s on prevalence and characteristics of cyberstalking in Serbia. A Web-based questionnaire was used to collect data from a group of respondents who were recruited by snowball sampling via e-mail. A total of 237 respondents completed the online questionnaire. The aim of the first part of this pap...

The evaluation of students’ social functioning implies an analysis of positive and negative behaviours, i.e. the evaluation of social competence and antisocial behaviour. The first part of the article is dedicated to defining the concepts of social competence and social skills, and the role of these constructs in the development of antisocial behav...

This article discusses influence of socio-economic status of juvenile delinquents on the course and outcome of criminal procedure. Sociological theories are congruent respecting existence of this disparity, but non to the nature of their sources. Reported results of earlier as well as contemporary research studies empirically vindicate conception t...

In the last two decades stalking phenomenon has been internationally recognized and actualized in professional, scientific circles, media and the daily conversation. Stalking has recently been identified as a specific and complex problem, studied separately from domestic violence, abuse at work, sexual harassment, threats, following, homicide, voye...

The aim of this paper is to present the work of the victim support service, VDS info and victim support, which is functioning within the Victimology Society of Serbia. The paper contains the analysis of the Service's data that relates to the period from January 1st until December 31st 2007. At the beginning, data is presented on the forms of v...

Contemporary life conditions are followed with new, complex tipes of crime, demanding propriate society reaction in order to prevent or diminish consequences caused by thiese new types of crime. High-tech (cyber) crime has been recognized as criminal behavior and placed into a focus of many national and internationl institutions and organizations i...

In the last two decades stalking phenomenon is recognized and actualized in the world in professional, scienti� c circles, in media and the everyday talk. Recently, stalking is identi� ed as speci� c and complex problem, studied separatly from domestic violence, workplace abuse, sexual harassment, threats, following, homicide, voyeurism and the oth...

This paper aims to identify the types and characteristics of primary and secondary victimization faced by the victims who turned to the VDS info and victims support service for assistance, with particular emphasis on their experience with governmental institutions as well as the assistance and support they received from the Service. In 2005, VDS in...