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FEMICIDE IN CROATIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Starting from the definition of violence against women, as well as the difficulties in defining the term femicide, the paper provides an overview of the trends in the number of female victims of homicide in Croatia in the period from 1999 to 2012. Based on the official statistics of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Croatia on reported crimes, time series method and relative change rates, the trends in the number of homicide victims in Croatia in terms of gender over the period under investigation were determined. It was shown that, annually, the number of women who were victims of homicide significantly fluctuated on average. Research has shown that women are relatively more frequently the victims of completed homicides, especially in cases when the perpetrator is their intimate partner or another close male person.

femicide; violence against women; trends; victims and gender

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