Original scientific paper

Analysis of Different Victimology Factors of Rape

Davor Maričević ; Uprava kriminalističke policije, MUP RH, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ivana Glavina Jelaš ; Visoka policijska škola, Policijska akademija, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Davor Štrk orcid.org/0000-0002-2264-1250 ; Visoka policijska škola, Policijska akademija, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The aim of this study was the analysis of different victimology factors of rape and refutation of classic rape myths and stereotypes about rape victims and perpetrators. Also the aim was analysis of crime place, time of committing the crime, and the time of crime report to the police. Research was conducted on the sample of 62 cases of rape in 2015 and 2016. Only the criminal offence of rape from article. 153. paragraph 1. of Penal code was analyzed. Regarding victimology factors following variables were analyzed: gender of victim, age of victim, victim's education level, marriage status of victim, earlier knowledge of perpetrator, victim's alcohol consumption, earlier deviant behavior of the victim. 379 Maričević, Glavina Jelaš, Štrk: Analiza nekih viktimoloških čimbenika silovanja… Polic. sigur. (Zagreb), godina 27. (2018), broj 4, str. 365 - 379 Regarding other non victimology factors – crime place, time of committing the crime, and the time of crime report to the police were analyzed. Descriptive analysis of data, precisely analysis of frequencies was conducted. Results showed that rape victims more often are women between nineteen and twenty four years of age and lover level of education. Earlier deviant behavior was detected in more than half of vicitms. 5% of victims were in marriage. More than three quarters of victims knew the perpetrator, which disproves myth regarding rapist being an unknown perpetrator. Regarding the place of crime, myth according which most rapes happens in the dark and abandoned alleys was also disproved. Results showed that one half of rapes happened in private home or apartment, and only one fifth in open space (street, forest paths etc.). Almost two thirds of rapes happened near the place of victims residence and usually on weekend, at night and early morning hours and on summer. 68% of victims have consumed alcohol in the time of crime. Finally, results showed that in the majority of the cases rape is reported to the police in first twenty four hours and that generally number of reports decreases with the passage of time of the act of crime.

Keywords

victim; rape; victimology factors; myths

Hrčak ID:

215755

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/215755

Publication date:

10.1.2019.

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