International Aspect of the Domestic (Family) Violence - Victims and Consequences

Abstract

Domestic violence is a kind of crime of violence which has always existed in human society. It is treated as a private matter within the family and as such is not treated by the state. There are adopted a number of Conventions and other international acts banning family violence. Such actions are incriminated in the national laws, there are created institutions of various international and national bodies combating this phenomenon, all this in order of awareness of human society that family violence is not a private matter but a matter that touch all and should be treated the same by the state as other forms of violence, regardless of its private nature. Within the state are also created various non-governmental organizations, to protect victims of family violence, whose address this issue and try preventively to influence to the society to eliminate or mitigate the consequences of the family violence. Domestic violence as a phenomenon and as a form of criminality was written a lot, in international as well as national levels. Many researchers have written about the reasons for submission, submission forms, preventive policy of the state, for the criminal incrimination of the family violence and so on. We as a society, should focus more on the protection of victims, on the proper treatment of their institutional, legal, all this in order to soften a little bit their pain, help in rehabilitation, socialization and to provide the conditions for a better life and different from what they have had so far. If the state offers adequate protection and assistance to victims of family violence, there is no doubt that it will affect to denunciation of the violence in the authorities and in this way to influence in reduction of the unknown number of this offense, which no doubt is very large. In cases of domestic violence, where the victims are mostly weaker persons, women, children, disabled parents, not enough awareness for presenting the case or conviction of the perpetrator, it is necessary that adequate care to victims, their treatment institutional aid, protection from the perpetrator and so on, because the victims in most of the cases do not report family violence or tolerate it because of the dependency that the abuser and fear that if violence would pose difficulties in essential to continued life. Therefore, victims should be proven that there is one who cares for them and provides sufficient protection and conditions for the rest of their life, without violence, without fear, in a harmony and family welfare, just as does a healthy family functioning. So, domestic violence should scrutiny from international aspect, including here the entire legal act approved by international community. Aim of this paper is to find out how through international measures is fighting this phenomenon in the society.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2014.v3n2p25