NASILJE U ZATVORSKOM SUSTAVU TE ANALIZA STEGOVNIH PRIJESTUPA ZATVORENIKA U CENTRU ZA DIJAGNOSTIKU
VIOLENCE IN THE PRISON SYSTEM AND ANALYSIS OF DISCIPLINARY OFFENSES IN THE DIAGNOSTIC CENTER

Summary/Abstract: Violence is a problem for prisoners and officials in the prison system. The paper deals with the issue of violence in the penal system, with special reference to the beginning of serving a prison sentence. How the prison system in the Republic of Croatia reacts to violent perpetrators of disciplinary offences, are the imposed disciplinary measures adequate to the committed disciplinary offenses in order to deter the violent prisoner from future violent behavior while serving the prison sentence. The research part presents and analyzes data on the social anamnestic, diagnostic and criminological characteristics of perpetrators of disciplinary offenses due to violent behavior at the very beginning of their prison sentence in the Republic of Croatia. The research was conducted on prisoners who committed disciplinary offences, between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2023, and who were serving their prison sentence in the Diagnostic Center in Zagreb. A Questionnaire was created for the research, which was arranged so that the collected data would be suitable for the application of multivariate data analysis. In the paper, the author gives his comments, clarifications and possible recommendations for future research. The aim of the work is to show, as well as warn about the fact that there are prisoners who continue to behave violently in the prison system, and on the other hand, how the penal institution responses to such behavior, with the application of the descriptive method, data synthesis and meta analysis.

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