Legal Gap and/or Lack of Analysis of Criminal Offences against the Croatian Armed Forces

Ivan Trlin, Dijana Gracin

Criminal offences committed against the Croatian Armed Forces constitute a special
chapter of the Criminal Code, which consists of a total of 23 criminal offences. The
specificity of these criminal acts lies in the possible circle of perpetrators and the
conditioned state when the acts can be committed – a state of war or of immediate
threat. This paper examines the available literature on the subject and analyses in
detail the current state of affairs for the relevant chapter of the Criminal Code. The
mentioned topic is not represented by other authors of criminal justice topics due
to the low representation of the aforementioned criminal acts, as well as the under-
representation of filed criminal reports concerning criminal offences from Chapter
34 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Croatia. The paper provides an overview
of criminal offences against the armed forces using the examples of Slovenia, Serbia,
Hungary, Germany, and the USA. This paper is product of authors’ efforts to
investigate the topic and provide core basis for future research.