Naslov
Gender and Crime in Croatia: Female Criminality in Context

Autori
Getoš Kalac, Anna-Maria ; Bezić, Reana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The Handbook on Female Criminality in the Former Yugoslav Countries

Urednik/ci
Stanojoska, Angelina ; Dimovski, Darko ; Maksimova, Elena

Izdavač
Springer

Grad
Cham

Godina
2023

Raspon stranica
75-104

ISBN
978-3-031-27628-6

Ključne riječi
crime, gender, female criminality, Croatia

Sažetak
This chapter provides an in-depth criminological analysis of crime (trends) in Croatia with a primary focus on female criminality, as well as society’s (normative) reactions towards it. In order to understand female criminality, one needs to contextualise its basic phenomenological features and probable causes within the broader Croatian social context, including demographic, normative in addition to historical and cultural features. This task is tackled in the chapter’s introductory section, followed by an overview of core phenomenological features of Croatian overall criminality, which provides the chapter’s criminologically relevant context in which female criminality is embedded. Global crime trends clearly show that the gender gap is steadily shrinking, which is also noticeable in Croatia, where the share of females reported for having committed a criminal offence has almost doubled in the past two decades. However, such an increase is not proportionally reflected when it comes to accused and convicted females. Whether this mismatch is a consequence of the specific types of crime females commit or whether it reflects a more lenient prosecutorial and judicial approach towards them is just one of many intriguing questions about the hows and potential whys of female criminality in Croatia.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo, Sociologija, Sigurnosne i obrambene znanosti, Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti

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