The Faculty of Law at Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar" was a co-organizer of an international conference on criminology, which was held at the Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in Ukraine. The authoritative scientific forum is in memory of the Austrian professor Hans Gross - one of the founders of forensic science, lecturer and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Chernivtsi. His book, Criminal Investigations, a Practical Textbook, published in the late 19th century, laid the scientific foundations of forensics.
The Dean of the Faculty of Law at VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" Prof. D.Sc. Yonko Kunchev welcomed the participants in the conference at its opening and presented a paper on "The subject of criminology in the context of the concept of Hans Gross." Prof. Kunchev acquainted the participants in the forum with the traditional and non-traditional concepts of the subject of criminology. The famous lecturer presented his concept on this important and debatable problem in the general theory of criminology. His study was met with interest and approval by the participants at the conference.
Prof. D. Sc. Yonko Kunchev is the head of the master's degree programme "Forensic Science" at the university. He was awarded the prestigious Varna Prize for his monograph "Forensic Science Course", which analyses the historical and theoretical foundations of forensic science. More than 160 representatives from various spheres of public life - psychologists, lawyers, pedagogues, security experts, students from different specialties of VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar" and graduates of other universities participated in the courses "Profiling of Unknown Perpetrators of Crime" and "Criminalistics", which were organised at the beginning of 2021. The young profilers started a Criminology Club and have already been working on joint projects.
Yesterday Prof. Kunchev presented his paper to more than 50 scientists, university professors, magistrates, lawyers, experts, PhD and university students from Ukraine, Bulgaria and Moldova. Theories and scientific achievements in the field of criminology were discussed.
The Chernivtsi National University in Ukraine has a nearly 150-year history. It was founded in 1895 by Emperor Franz Joseph, and until 1918, while the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, lectures were taught in German.