This paper is based on previous econometric research on the determinants of crime rates. The introduction and theoretical part explains the importance of the crime rate in economic theory, the different determinants of crime and the economic consequences of crime. In the empirical part, a multiple linear regression model of the crime rate in the Republic of Croatia for the period 1997.-2020. was used, in order to determine the determinants of the crime rate in the Republic of Croatia and to test the set of research hypotheses. By using the Stepwise method, it was concluded that the variables that have statistically significant influence on the movement of the crime rate are enrollment in tertiary education and net migration rate. From the standardized form, it was determined that the variable enrollment in tertiary education has the greatest relative influence on the crime rate in the Republic of Croatia. The examination established that the problem of multicollinearity, autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity does not exist. Of the set research hypotheses, only the third hypothesis is accepted, while the previous two are rejected.