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 presentingthe 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.