Petra Šprem, Ph.D., graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb in 2013. After her graduation, she was employed in a law firm as a trainee lawyer for 4 years. In 2017, she became a member of the Max Planck Partner Group for “Balkan Criminology”. In 2018, she passed the bar exam and in the same year was employed as an assistant on the project of the Croatian Science Foundation entitled: “Croatian Monitor of Violence – Research into the Forms, Causes and Processing of Delinquent Violence with a Focus on the Protection of Particularly Vulnerable Groups of Victims”. In November 2018, she became a postgraduate doctoral student of criminal law at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb and is writing a dissertation on the topic of domestic violence.  So far, she has actively participated in national and international conferences and attended the Doctoral School for Criminology and Forensics at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). She has also participated in a doctoral workshop at the International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights in Syracuse. She has co-authored several scientific papers in the field of criminal law and criminology.