Prosecution and Punishing Femicide in Serbia

This paper addresses femicide in the Republic of Serbia. The research is focused on four parts: profile of perpetrators of these criminal offenses, legal qualification of criminal offence, prosecuting and punishing perpetrators of femicide. The results of the study shows that there are ten types of femicide in Serbia and indicate that the perpetrators of femicide are usually unemployed persons, both male and female, most often 46–60 years old, with a elementary school, and poor financial status. The largest percentage of criminal proceedings for femicide are finally completed within one or two years. The largest number of perpetrators were found guilty and sentenced to long prison terms. The percentage of perpetrators who committed criminal offences in a state of mental incompatibility and who were sentenced to a security measure of compulsory psychiatric treatment and confinement in a medical institution is not negligible.