This graduate thesis deals with the presentation of the newly emerging issue surrounding the introduction of the criminal offense of "femicide" into the Criminal Code of the Republic of Croatia. It is important that the state institutions timely and effectively suppress all types of violence, domestic violence and violence against women, and provide quality legal and medical protection to the victims. Given that in this case one of those measures was the amendment of the Criminal Code introducing a new separate criminal offense of "femicide", the thesis also presents the possible problems evoked by such a change. It is indisputable that any violence against women should be sanctioned correctly and in time, but by protecting only one sex/gender with a special criminal offense at a time when we have several different gender identities, we should ask ourselves whether the Criminal Code in its gender neutrality was actually already in accordance with new social and political changes, and that its quality implementation should be ensured.