Review article
Practical Aspects of Interrogation of a Suspect in the Police in Regard to the Offender’s Age and Gender
Mirjana Kondor-Langer
; Visoka policijska škola, Policijska akademija, MUP RH, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Stjepan Gluščić
; Visoka policijska škola, Policijska akademija, MUP RH, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper deals with some practical aspects of interrogation of a suspect in the police (Art. 208a of the Criminal Procedure Act). The paper presents the results of the research, for which secondary data
sources were used, namely, the collected police files of criminal offences committed in the area of the Zagreb County Police Administration. The research sample included police files, from 1 December 2017 until 15 September 2018, in which police interrogations were conducted (Art. 208a of the Criminal Procedure Act). During the research, a total of 141 police files for various criminal offences, in which a suspect was interrogated, were analysed. The objective of the research was to gain insight into certain features of some practical aspects of police interrogation for criminal offences from the area of the Zagreb County Police Administration. The focus, and also the goal of the research, was to identify differences in police interrogation regarding certain features of a suspect, specifically regarding the offender’s age and gender.
Keywords
interrogation of a suspect; police; offender’s age; offender’s gender
Hrčak ID:
222375
URI
Publication date:
20.6.2019.
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