The aim of this paper is to gain insight into the attitudes of the general population towards convicted individuals in the Republic of Croatia as well as compare attitudes based on the sex of the respondents, acquaintance of a person serving a prison sentence and acquaintance of a victim of a crime. For the purposes of this research, a questionnaire based on the scale of attitudes of Begin and Courte (1980) was used. The original questionnaire consists of 16 variables that have been translated into Croatian. Buđanovac i Mikšaj-Todorović (1998) added at the original questionnaire five new variables of attitudes and two variables that examine the experience of contact with a convicted person or the experience of being a victim of a crime. A total of 477 respondents participated in the study, and the data was processed by quantitative method, descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests to determine differences. The results indicated that a positive attitude towards convicts and their rehabilitation prevails among the respondents. No significant differences were found with regard to the gender of the respondents and the acquaintance of the individual who was serving a prison sentence. Differences based on the acquaintance of a victim of a crime go in the direction that individuals who know someone who has been a victim of a crime have more positive attitudes towards convicted persons.