Professional paper

A typology of the victim and the victim's relationship to the perpetrator from Article 188 of the Penal Law of the Republic of Croatia - a theoretical study and research results from the Zagreb County

Vladimir Bosiljevac ; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The paper gives a theoretical study and research results from the Zagreb County Court in order to describe a typology of the victim and the victimÕs relationship to the perpetrator from Article 188. of the Penal law of the Republic of Croatia. The autor tries to approach the problem of rape by studying the psychological profile of the victim using theoretical data as well as his own reserach results from judgements given by the Zagreb County Court. The paper also deals with legal, biopsychosocial and sociomedical aspects of the criminal offence so as to describe the psychological profile of the rape victim and the victimÕs relation to perpetrator, as well as the phenomenology of rape in Croatia. It is concluded with an analysis
of the research material.

Keywords

rape; rape victims; rape perpetrator

Hrčak ID:

34158

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/34158

Publication date:

1.12.2004.

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