RT Article T1 Protecting human rights: a complex story of the democratisation of the Croatian police JF International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice VO 42 IS 1 SP 1 OP 31 A1 Kutnjak Ivković, Sanja 1965- A2 Borovec, Krunoslav LA English YR 2018 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1753630924 AB This paper explores the evolution of the protection of human rights in light of democratisation of the Croatian police. The story of democratisation of the Croatian police and their protection of human rights is particularly complex because of the war and its consequences. Using the grounded theory approach, the paper builds an argument that, because of the Croatian police are a part of the society at large, the way in which the police have dealt with human rights has been heavily dependent upon the larger social, political, and economic conditions, created both by domestic and international actors. The paper traces the police adherence to the protection of human rights across three distinct time periods. K1 Democratisation K1 Community Policing K1 Police K1 Transition K1 War K1 Croatia DO 10.1080/01924036.2016.1270841