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Sazetak: Razvijanje odgovora na genitalno sakacenje zena i djevojcica te implementacija predmetnih propisa slozen su izazov koji ima multikulturalni kontekst. Rijec je o osobito osjetljivom problemu u kojem su kulturna obiljezja kontroverzna i stoje na putu vec prihvacenim standardima ljudskih prava. Kriticki osvrti na ovu pojavu ukljucuju i interpretacije genitalnog sakacenja kao sredstva drustvene kontrole nad zenama u drustvima koja su izrazito patrijarhalna i patrilinearna. Predmet ovog rada jesu pojavni oblici, etioloski razlozi, medicinske i psiholoske posljedice za zrtvu te pravna regulacija sakacenja zenskih spolnih organa u svijetu i u Republici Hrvatskoj. Aktualnost problematici priskrbile su dvije cinjenice: da je Kaznenim zakonom uvedena zabrana genitalnog sakacenja kroz novo kazneno djelo te da nije bilo radova na ovu temu u hrvatskoj kaznenopravnoj literaturi. U tu se svrhu istrazuje kategorizacija radnji obavljanja genitalnog sakacenja, navode dosad uocene medicinske posljedice ovakve prakse, izlazu predmetne kaznenopravne regulacije mnogih zemalja u svijetu te na kraju raspravlja o prikladnom odgovoru na ovaj fenomen unutar hrvatskog Kaznenog zakona i predlazu promjene glede postojece inkriminacije.
Kljucne rijeci: sakacenje zenskih spolnih organa, medicinske posljedice genitalnog sakacenja, kaznenopravna regulacija
Barbara Herceg Paksic,
Eugen Jakopovic
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: MANIFESTATIONS, MEDICAL FEATURES AND REGULATION WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
Summary
Evoking a response to genital mutilation on women and girls and implementing applicable laws and regulations are complex challenges with a multicultural background. It is a particularly sensitive issue with controversial cultural features standing in the way to existing human rights standards. Critical reviews of this phenomenon refer to interpretation of female genital mutilation as a means of social control over women in societies that are highly patriarchal and patrilineal. The paper deals with manifestations, etiology, medical and psychological consequences for the victims as well as with legal regulations of female genital mutilation worldwide and in the Republic of Croatia. There are two facts that contributed to the contemporariness of the issue: firstly, the Criminal Code has introduced a definition of a new criminal offense to prohibit female genital mutilation and secondly, the fact that Croatian criminal legal theory has not dealt with this topic so far. For this purpose, the paper researches on categorization of genital mutilation act, states medical consequences of such practices, presents regulations within criminal law in different countries,...