Stručni rad
Legal regulation of stalking in Croatian and foreign legislation
Gloria Gudelj
orcid.org/0000-0002-0716-4927
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The author analyzes the legal regulation of the criminal offence of stalking in croatian and foreign legislation. Stalking was introduced in 2013. in the Criminal code in the Chapter "Criminal offences against personal freedom". Although this is a relatively new crime, croatian jurisprudence has been able to build some viewpoints on the length of persecution and harassment, the persistence of the offender and the anxiety and fear of the victim. The United States is a pioneer in the criminalization of stalking and in Europe the United Kingdom was first to combat this crime. Both german and italian regulations are also analyzed. All rulings show some similarities in the definition of criminal offence and the differences are mostly related to the range of punishment, the relation with other similar offences and the standards developed by judicial practice. Because of its nature and availability of the Internet, cyberstalking presents a major challenge to modern legislation so states will have to strengthen international cooperation to prevent cyberstalking from escalating into serious crimes with an international dimension.
Ključne riječi
stalking; criminal law; legal regulation; cyberstalking; personal freedom
Hrčak ID:
235491
URI
Datum izdavanja:
27.9.2019.
Posjeta: 2.046 *