Petra Šprem

Petra Šprem, PhD, mag. iur., graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 2013. After four years of legal practice, she passed the Croatian Bar Examination in 2018 and, in the same year, entered academia through the Croatian Science Foundation project Croatian Violence Monitor. She completed her doctoral studies in criminal law sciences in 2023 by defending the dissertation “Normative and empirical analysis of domestic violence in Croatia: criminal law concepts, criminological phenomena, practical challenges and possible solutions”, graded summa cum laude. By decision of the Field Committee for Law of 19 February 2026, her appointment to the academic rank of Assistant Professor was confirmed. Her research focuses on criminal law, criminology, victimology, domestic violence, the protection of vulnerable victims, human rights and penal policy, combining criminal law doctrine, criminological analysis and empirical methodology. In her work to date, she has participated in numerous national and international research projects, presented at many scientific conferences and authored a number of scientific papers in the field of criminal law.