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https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.59.3.9
Crime in the COVID-19 Pandemic Atmosphere in Croatia
Ksenija Butorac
orcid.org/0000-0002-4843-7936
; Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova, Visoka policijska škola, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Davor Solomun
orcid.org/0000-0003-0375-9234
; Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova, Visoka policijska škola, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This research includes an analysis of total crime with a detailed insight into common or conventional
crime in the five-year period before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2015-
2019) compared to the year of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020). Empirical analysis is based
on secondary data of registered crimes and misdemeanors for this purpose requested and obtained
from the Croatian Ministry of Interior, which is an indirect measurement of crime
in a particular area (Palmer, 2020). The problem of exploratory research in this paper is the
acquisition of new cognition about possible changes in the scope, structure and dynamics of
crime and the typology and patterns of police registered crimes and offences in the pandemic
crisis period, compared to the previous five years in Croatia. The obtained results are observed
through the applicability of theoretical concepts of environmental criminology in explaining
the change of trends in typology and patterns of criminal and deviant behavior. The purpose
of the research was to show how the emerging pandemic influences everyday life and affects the
mobility of overall crime in general, but also the specific segments of crime in the Republic of
Croatia and individual police directorates.
Ključne riječi
COVID-19; common crime; property crimes; violent crimes; environmental criminology
Hrčak ID:
271652
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.1.2022.
Posjeta: 1.056 *