Review article
Criminology and Dangerous Crime in Croatia and in the Global Context – The Past, Present and Future
Anna-Maria Getoš Kalac
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ruža Karlović
; Police College, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The objective of this article is to investigate the position and role of Croatian criminology and to analyse the phenomenology of the basic forms of dangerous crime in Croatia and in its global context. For this purpose the article presents criminology as a scientific discipline and as a subject taught in higher education, but also discusses its role in the regional context. Croatian criminology, whose institutional beginnings at the Zagreb Faculty of Law can be traced back as far as 1906, is characterised by three different criminological streams – criminal law, criminalistics and defectology – whose starting grounds and activities are presented with a view to a full understanding of criminology’s current and future position. Further, by building upon the scientific work of Professor Emeritus Dr. Željko Horvatić, the incidence, structure and trends of dangerous crime (homicide and rape) at the turn of the millennium are analysed on the global, European and national level. Based on this analysis and taking into account global as well as European dangerous crime trends, the article concludes by providing a condensed evaluation of the current Croatian security situation.
Keywords
criminology; crime; homicide; rape; comparative criminology
Hrčak ID:
132644
URI
Publication date:
16.12.2014.
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