The paper gives a theoretical study and research results from the Zagreb County Court in order to describe a typology of the victim and the victim's relationship to the perpetrator from Article 188. of the Penal law of the Republic of Croatia. The autor tries to approach the problem of rape by studying the psychological profile of the victim using theoretical data as well as his own reserach results from judgements given by the Zagreb County Court. The paper also deals with legal, biopsychosocial and sociomedical aspects of the criminal offence so as to describe the psychological profile of the rape victim and the victim's relation to perpetrator, as well as the phenomenology of rape in Croatia. It is concluded with an analysis of the research material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published
2004
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