VICTIMOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Abstract

The prevention and detection of crime is one of the main tasks that every state sets before itself. There are many reasons that contribute to a certain person becoming a criminal or resorting to some socio-pathological phenomenon. One of those factors is the family. The family is a place where a person expects to receive the greatest love, warmth and support.Very often, instead of having a positive influence on people, the family is the main factor that contributes to the resorting to criminal behavior of its members.Most often we are talking about those families in which the relations between the members are disturbed, that is, very often the person who becomes a criminal is a victim of domestic violence or comes from a family in which domestic violence is committed.For a long time, victimology has been working invisibly as one of the means of crime prevention directly with the help of potential victims.Victimization is the development of conscious behavior among citizens that prevents material damage, attacks and accidents. Moreover, this is also a close interaction with the architects, who think about the urban space in such a way that it contains a minimum of closed places that are well suited to carry out illegal actions. Domestic violence is a very sensitive topic for which, unfortunately, there was no legal regulation corresponding to it in our positive legislation. If we were to define it, domestic violence would include a set of activities that establish control over other family members.Art. 3 of the Law on Prevention, Prevention and Protection from Domestic Violence enumerates a large number of actions that constitute domestic violence. The same law defines the terms perpetrator and victim. And the perpetrator is the person who commits any of the violence listed in the article defining domestic violence, while the victim is the person who suffers violence on the territory of our country.Domestic violence is also said to represent in some way the abuse of power in family relationships, and it is considered that those relationships are based on inequality within the family community and is defined as a set of behaviors with which the perpetrator tries to establish control over other members of the family while using force, threat and manipulation.In recent years, reports of domestic violence have been growing, but the numbers are far from real, because according to NGOs, only 2 percent of victims are encouraged to report to the police. Another problem is that 80 percent of those who report are subsequently withdrawn from prosecution. The victims speak only when the consequences of the beating become visible.