Victims and Witness Support Service Croatia – Referent Centres in Osijek and Vukovar
The Croatian Science Foundation project IP-CORONA-04-2086 "Life in the time of COVID-19 - Social implications on the security and well-being of vulnerable groups in the European context" will reach its end soon. In order to share the project research results with fellow scientists, NGOs, citizens and friends who shared the research journey with us, we decided to organize the international scientific conference, a final activity of the project of the same name.
All the information about the conference you can find at: https://sites.google.com/.../pravo-u.../konferencija....
You can access the final conference programme + Webex links for online sessions via the following link: https://sites.google.com/.../pravo-u.../konferencija/program.
You are welcome to join us on our last project journey!
A link between the COVID-19 pandemic and sexual violence was explained in theoretical context and confirmed by the results of IP-CORONA-04-2086 empirical research. Dalida Rittossa presented a part of most recent research results in "Criminal Offences against Sexual Freedom in the Republic of Croatia – Legislative Framework and Future Preventive Actions" at the international symposium "Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Its Prevention in Education: Exchanging Knowledge and Envisioning Positive Practices" held in Rijeka.
https://www.rijeka.hr/en/international-symposium-sexual-gender-based-violence-prevention-education/
In order to bring the results of the project closer to the community and to make real progress in protecting the rights of vulnerable groups, the lifelong learning program "Law in the Community" was created as part of the P-CORONA-04-2086 project. Dejana Golenko presented the program at the professional symposium entitled "The Library is All Around Us: The Role of the Library in the Community and the Community in the Library", organized by the Rijeka Library Association.
https://hrcak.srce.hr/broj/21838
We have the most exciting news! Eight scientific articles have been published in the Collected Papers of the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka. The project research team has analyzed various issues related to the protection of the rights of the vulnerable persons in the time of COVID -19 pandemic and offered precise conclusions for the crisis yet to come.
Supporting the idea of open science and bringing scientific results back to the community, the articles are fully accessible at: https://hrcak.srce.hr/en/broj/21838.
Maria Forsman has examined how the social services and the police in Sweden act to protect children's rights when there is a suspicion of violence or abuse at home. Our researcher was interviewed by Swedish television, and while sharing her research results, she explained that child protection investigations are prolonged or not done at all, due to lack of staff and resources.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vasterbotten/ny-forskning-ska-undersoka-om-barnens-ratt-tas-till-vara-av-socialtjansten
How to Understand One of Us? Known and Unknown About the Phenomenon of Child Sexual Abuse and Environmental Responses
There is broad consensus that child sexual abuse is one of the most complex negative phenomena today, with multiple long-term and short-term consequences. Sexual crimes against children are among the most serious crimes that, once uncovered, deeply and powerfully shake the environment in which the crimes were discovered. They are events that are associated with a strong need to turn one's head to the other side, to believe that they are not happening here and now, but to someone else, or that the delict in focus is an isolated, accidental incident. To stimulate the conversation about this phenomenon, we have organized, in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Inter-University Centre Opatija, an interdisciplinary research workshop for students of the Hotel Tourism School Opatija and students of the Faculty of Law in Rijeka. After the screening of the documentary film "One of Us" there was a vivid discussion with the director Đuro Gavran, Lorena Zec from SOS Rijeka - Center for Nonviolence and Human Rights, and judges Ljiljana Stipišić, LL.M. from the High Criminal Court of the Republic of Croatia and Sandra Juranović from the County Court in Rijeka.
The COVID -19 crisis has confirmed the indispensable value of information literacy programs to educate the public on how to obtain accurate information. Dejana Golenko explained this hypothesis in her paper "Information Literacy Programs in the Field of Law: Past, Present, and Future: Case Study at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka" at the conference "Digital, Media and Information Literacy in Special Libraries" at the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum in Ljubljana.
49th Dies Academicus – the University of Rijeka Award Ceremony
In the time of need, the scientific community has a legal and ethical obligation to make a considerable and direct contribution to the community. The project team members have promptly responded to this obligation, and their effort and scientific enthusiasm has been recognised by their colleagues. On 16 May, the team received a special recognition letter by the Senate of the University of Rijeka for exceptional engagement in research during the COVID-9 pandemics.
There is no better way to start our 49th Dies Academicus than thanking those who have made significant steps forward in the past 2 pandemic years for our University, our city, the region and beyond and invested in dedicated and hard work. Acknowledgments are given by the University Senate, at the suggestion of the administration, to those who helped us all get through the last 2 years together, as well as to the winners of the Croatian Science Foundation projects from the pandemic period. You have made our lives easier.
Prof. dr. sc. Snježana Prijić Samaržija, a rector of the University of Rijeka
Briški, L., Plesničar, M. M., Intimate Partner Homicide in the Times of Covid-19 in Slovenia, Lex Localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, Vol 20, No 2, 2022, pp. 455 - 478.
http://pub.lex-localis.info/index.php/LexLocalis/article/view/1805
The COVID-19 pandemic has showed us that in time of crisis the state has an effective power to restrict citizens’ rights. In collaboration with Sunčana Roksandić from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, Goran Arbanas has questioned legal solutions allowing the liberty restriction of two vulnerable groups, persons with mental disorders, and persons suspected of suffering from, or suffering from infectious diseases in Liječnički vjesnik paper.
https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/405133
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBXnTbDw-EE
The Phenomenon of Domestic Violence in the Time of COVID-19: Vulnerability Discussion with Ivana Bodrožić
Sensitivity of victims of intimate violence increased during the pandemic. Based on a sample of 64 shelter users interviewed, Irma Kovčo Vukadin concluded that the pandemic response measures had less impact on their personal and family functioning, but that they were more affected by psychological violence in a certain number of cases. Victims of couple violence reported mild to moderate symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression and showed moderate to high levels of resistance in coping with their own victimization. The research results were presented at the XI Annual Online Conference of the Victimology Society of Serbia.
The Project Tolerance Poster Exhibition
https://tolerance-project.org/shows/89430650
In Search of a Place Under the Sun With Ambassadors of Childhood with Equal Opportunities: Tolerance, Social Inclusion and Vulnerability of Children
https://sites.google.com/pravri.hr/pravo-u-zajednici/doga%C4%91anja
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thfR9cMNmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLeQgcnRzyE&t=3s
What legal instruments are used in the Italian legal framework to protect victims of family violence? Is this implementation in line with the obligations of the Istanbul Convention? Are the protection instruments applicable in COVID -19 circumstances? Francesco Trapella has undertaken an in-depth analysis of Italian legislation in order to answer the questions raised and published the results in Cassazione penale, an Italian scientific journal.
A recently published scientific article "Changes in Child Sexual Victimization during Pandemics in Croatia" was presented by Irma Kovčo Vukadin at the 11th International Scientific Conference "Special Education and Rehabilitation Today" of the Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation in Belgrade.
EU response to the COVID-19 crisis: How to protect the rights of the vulnerable and build a more resilient Europe – An interactive workshop
Snježana Prijić-Samaržija
Dalida Rittossa
Faculty of Law in Rijeka organized online "Rijeka Doctoral Conference 2021", and one of the sessions was dedicated to the protection of vulnerable groups and pandemic effects. Dalida Rittossa was one of the panelist who chaired the session and offered comments and question to doctoral researchers attending the conference. This was a good occasion to share a part of the IP-CORONA-04-2086 project results with young colleagues who have started their scientific research career.
Considering that the lives of children around the world have shifted significantly to the online space in pandemic conditions, Irma Kovčo Vukadin presented her research on cyberbullying as a plenary speaker at the Second International Scientific Conference "Child in Focus - A Multidisciplinary Approach" at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar.
The COVID -19 pandemic has significantly affected children in a variety of ways. Irma Kovčo Vukadin has conducted an in-depth analysis of official police statistics. Irma's research confirms that the total number of sex offences against children decreased by 20% in 2020 compared to the previous year.
The state's ability to effectively organize its social and criminal justice institutions prior to the pandemic plays a critical role in the state's protection of the rights of vulnerable groups during the Covid-19 crisis. To contribute to the ongoing discussion on the effectiveness of the state and its ability to suppress violence among intimates, Dalida Rittossa and Marissabell Škorić conducted an in-depth study of the aggravated murder of a closely related person whom the perpetrators had previously abused on the sample of all final Supreme Court judgements from 1 January 2013 to 1 June 2020. The research results are presented in the paper "Aggravated Murder of Previously Abused Victims – A Study on Sentencing Practices in Croatia", at the 3rd International Scientific Conference Legal Tradition and New Legal Challenges of Faculty of Law in Novi Sad.
http://www.conf.pf.uns.ac.rs/index.php/konferencija-pravna-tradicija-i-novi-pravni-izazovi-novi-sad
Giornata di studio del Nord Adriatico – temi giuridici di attualità
Sanja Barić
Dalida Rittossa
Dossier Covid-19 - la vulnerabilità dei bambini alla violenza endofamiliare in Croazia
September was a particularly fruitful time for project researchers. The pandemic circumstances aggravated the social and working environment of many families and caused additional stress. Irma, Mojca and Francesco decided to join the group of scholars and present their latest research findings at the 4th European Conference on Domestic Violence in Ljubljana, as they believe that scientific findings on family violence need to be heard and disseminated among professionals and the public.
Victim Service Providers' Secondary Traumatic Stress during COVID-19
Domestic Violence in Slovenia during the COVID-19 Epidemic
Intimate Partner Homicide and the COVID Pandemic
Ten Years After the Istanbul Convention: Supranational Warnings, Vulnerability, Defensive Guarantees
In the wake of the new wave of COVID-19 pandemic, a public debate has been focused on the extent to which basic rights and freedoms could be further restricted. Sanja Barić has explained why the state may track employees’ vaccination status and require a Covid Digital Certificate in the public sector.
https://net.hr/danas/hrvatska/sto-se-dosad-cekalo-s-covid-potvrdama-u-zdravstvu-69b9c514-1488-11ec-941b-167d4ea347ce
Another successful day for the # COVID -19# VULNERABILITY project! Irma Kovčo Vukadin presented her recently published paper "Violent Victimization of Children in Pandemic Living Conditions in Croatia" at the VIth international scientific conference "Social Deviations", Banja Luka.
https://www.centarmodernihznanja.com/novosti/57-vi-medjunarodna-konferencija-drustvene-devijacije
There is some evidence that the COVID -19 pandemic has been shown to be a significant criminological factor. To test this hypothesis, Irma Kovčo Vukadin has examined police statistics and reached intriguing conclusions about the violent victimization of children under pandemic living conditions.
https://radio.hrt.hr/radio-rijeka/clanak/sanja-baric-postoji-razlika-izmeu-znanja-i-misljenja/266772/
A certain number of research studies confirmed that COVID-19 pandemic has caused numerous unwanted consequences for children. While being socially isolated due to Covid-19 measures, children are at risk of being exposed to family violence. Maria Forsman stresses that it is a criminal offence to allow children to witness violent and sexual crimes in intimate relationships.
https://www.umu.se/nyheter/straffbart-att-lata-barn-bevittna-valds--och-sexualbrott-_10629923/
https://www.radio-roza.org/odasiljac
https://sway.office.com/julnVkU7fK7lXeFo?ref=Link
https://www.uni-bremen.de/yufe
http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-6637/2021/1450-66372101025K.pdf
https://www.policija.si/images/stories/Publikacije/RKK/PDF/2021/01/RKK2021-01_KatjaFilipcic_IntimnopartnerskoNasiljeVCasuCovid-19.pdf
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have explored the effects of covid-19 mandatory measures on protection of rights of family violence victims and existing theoretical conclusions about their information behaviour and information needs during crisis.
Rittossa, D., Glenko, D., Information Needs of Vulnerable Groups in the Time of COVID-19 – The Theoretical Framework, in: Sander, G., G., Pošćić, A., Martinović, A. (eds.): Exploring the Social Dimension of Europe, Essays in Honour of Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat, Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, 2021, pp. 407-419.
explained why the value of timely and relevant information is crucial in protecting the rights of vulnerable members of society and what is the role of NGO workers in providing such information during the COVID-19 pandemics. Our researchers held a public lecture at the Moise Palace in Cres.
https://uniri.hr/sveuciliste-i-drustvo/palaca-moise/
Brvar, B., Plesničar, M. M., Primerjalna analiza klicev na interventno številko 113 med leti 2019 in 2020, Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti, 2021.
https://www.inst-krim.si/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Brvar-Plesni%C4%8Dar-Primerjalna-analiza-klicev-na-113-2020-2019.pdf
https://www.autograf.hr/o-nacelu-jednakosti-povodom-katastrofalnih-potresa-u-rh/?fbclid=IwAR21KubKAciX4hP233DhOms1hBHIF9u1XNc0QFqIWvrsjOjvDAZ_UVrBJZY
https://www.24ur.com/novice/svet/grozljive-posledice-ukrepov-uboji-so-se-v-letu-2020-povecali-za-50-odstotkov.html
https://hr.n1info.com/vijesti/a588426-sanja-baric-o-ustavnoj-pismenosti/
https://radio.hrt.hr/radio-rijeka/clanak/izolacija-i-obiteljsko-nasilje-budite-dio-mozaika-preventivnog-djelovanja/254424/
https://vijesti.hrt.hr/691242/sanja-baric-o-korona-krizi?fbclid=IwAR2UkdbZrRHM4nuc_E0MR-olIo_SOlWv2aHexyv4qiDzfjIRommxE0Ay6-4
https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioRo%C5%BEa/ro%C5%BEaik-17/
Giornata di studio del Nord Adriatico – temi giuridici di attualità
Francesco Trapella
Dalida Rittossa
Rittossa, D., Strengthening the Rights of Sexually Abused Children in Front of the European Court for Human Rights – A Tale of Justice, Fairness and Constant Normative Evolution, EU and Comparative Law Issues and Challenges Series (ECLIC), No. 4, 2020., pp. 529-556.
https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/eclic/article/view/11915/5893