Police and Security, Vol. 22 No. 1, 2013.
Professional paper
LGBTIQ – A New Social Group
Daša Poredoš Lavor
Marijan Šuperina
; Police Academy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper provides a clarification of the term LGBTIQ with regard to the legal guidelines of discrimi-nation that this social group faces. Furthermore, a clear understanding of the distribution of concepts of gender and sex is presented. Following is a clarification of the term homophobia, and the outline of the Croatian experiences in combating violence against LGBTIQ community. The final part follows the life situation of a girl R. who was psychiatrically treated with descriptions of the situations she dealt with in life.
Keywords
LBGTIQ people; discrimination; homophobia; violence; expert help and support
Hrčak ID:
105625
URI
Publication date:
1.7.2013.
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