Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.54070/hljk.29.2.3
RESEARCH ON DUAL ARRESTS FOR MISDEMEANOURS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Marin Bonačić
; Sveučilište u Zagrebu Pravni fakultet, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Hrvoje Filipović
; MUP RH, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The introduction of mandatory arrests for domestic violence in the USA led, among other things, to an increase in the number of so-called dual arrests, i.e. situations where both parties participating in the incident are arrested on suspicion of being perpetrators of violence. This prompted the study of the problem of dual arrests, their consequences, and how they can be prevented. Dual arrests for domestic violence were also at one point recognised as a problem
in the Republic of Croatia. Before outlining current knowledge on dual arrests in practice, first the normative framework for arrest in misdemeanour proceedings is presented. The central part of the paper discusses the results of the research on dual arrests conducted in three police stations in the area of the Zagreb Police Department on a sample of all misdemeanour cases initiated under the Act on Protection from Domestic Violence in 2021, representing 33.84 percent of all arrest cases. Dual arrests were established in 46 cases and the rate of double arrests was determined to be 8.65 percent. Some characteristics of the cases in which dual arrests took place are identified, showing, for example, that in the vast majority of cases reciprocity of the form of violence was established and that in over 61 percent of the cases it was violence between marital and extramarital partners. In the concluding remarks, an analysis is given of
the reasons that were highlighted as the most important reasons for dual arrests for domestic violence misdemeanours
Keywords
arrest, dual arrest, dual indictment, domestic violence, misdemeanour procedure
Hrčak ID:
288480
URI
Publication date:
29.11.2022.
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