engleski

Criminological Characteristic of Perpetrators of Murder and Attempted Murder Toward Police Officers

In this study we analyzed some exogenous and endogenous factors that had influenced the perpetrator to commit the most serious crime, murder or its attempt, toward a police officer. Certain characteristics of the criminal procedure and crime-investigation of these crimes were also analyzed. During the study we analyzed a total of 88 cases, actually 88 criminal charges filed against known and unknown perpetrators of murders and attempted murders of police officers that had been collected all over Croatia. The cases were collected for the period of twelve years, actually for the period from the 1st of January 1998 to the 31st of December 2009. This study indicates the need to give more attention to this field from the scientific side to explore more etiological and phenomenological sides of these crimes and the perpetrators themselves, which could have impact on reducing and mitigating the consequences of such crimes.

perpetrator, murder of police officers

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