NASILJE U PORODICI – ZLOČIN BEZ ADEKVATNE KAZNE
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE – CRIME WITHOUT ADEQUATE PUNISHMENT

Summary/Abstract: Domestic violence is an issue existing in families since its primitive forms, extending through all types of societies and cultures regardless of their degree of development. The presence of domestic violence is not perceived enough as the family members keep it secret as they consider whatever happens within their family to be a part of their privacy. The domestic violence crime was introduced in the legislation of the Republic of Serbia in 2002, when, for the first time, the state announced that domestic violence was not a personal family issue, but rather a social and state matter which obliged the state to punish the perpetrators of this crime. The immediate incentive for introduction of this incrimination into our legislation was the inclination to protect families and family communities as general units, and also to protect individuals from the other family member who inflicts the violence. The available statistical data indicate that this phenomenon is increasingly common, or in other words, the number of reported cases of domestic violence is expanding on yearly basis. Moreover, the number of those convicted of domestic violence has risen, even though it is evident that this number is far lower than the number of reported incidences. In this paper official data obtained by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia for the period between 2007 and 2016 is used. The aim of the paper is to consider the scope of domestic violence reports and accusations. Furthermore, from the aspect of regulating mild or strict penal policies, the analysis was conducted with the goal of determining the types and scopes of sentenced legal sanctions for domestic violence.

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