National Study on Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (DGBV) and Elaboration of a Victims Support Model (VSM): Legal, Institutional and Policy Analysis
National Study on Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (DGBV) and Elaboration of a Victims Support Model (VSM): Legal, Institutional and Policy Analysis

Author(s): Gunn Bjørnsen, Elmira Nesheva, Miriana Ilcheva
Contributor(s): Andrey Nonchev (Editor), Slavyanka Ivanova (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Civil Society, Public Law, Sociology, Security and defense, Welfare systems, Social development, Social differentiation, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Substance abuse and addiction, Family and social welfare, Penology, Victimology, Welfare services, Social Norms / Social Control, Penal Policy, Sociology of Politics, EU-Legislation, Sociology of Law
Published by: Център за изследване на демокрацията
Keywords: Domestic Violence; Gender-Based Violence; DGBV; Victims Support Model; VSM:
Summary/Abstract: Although throughout the last decade the Bulgarian authorities have adopted a number of acts and subsidiary legislation, as well as improved the existing ones, related to domestic and gender-based violence (DGBV), the country still has a long way to go to bring its legislation and practices in full compliance with EU and Council of Europe standards. The present analysis will attempt to show that Bulgaria has a fairly comprehensive legal framework for counteracting violence, affecting disproportionately women and girls. It includes, inter alia, the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence and the Regulation for its implementation, stipulating a civil law procedure for protecting those harmed; relevant provisions in the Criminal Code, criminalising bodily injury and other forms of violence against the person, plus a provision on punishing non-compliance with a domestic violence protection order; a body of legislation for protection and (financial) assistance of victims of crime, including a dedicated law, relevant provisions in the Criminal Procedure Code. In addition, a number of policy documents guide the work of institutions in co-ordinating their efforts to combat violence and protect groups of persons harmed, especially those with multiple vulnerabilities, such as Roma women and girls.

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