Family violence: From criminal charges to a verdict in the Republic of Serbia

Abstract

In the research work the authors indicate to the fact that the domestic violence is a very complex criminology, criminalistics and legal phenomenon. The number of criminal charges for the domestic violence is in the negative correlation with the number of accused and convicted persons. The results in this work confirm the fact that it has not been the right view of authors and professional practice presents for more than seventy years in Serbia that the illumination of crimes, as the model of work, is useful or effective. In order to obtain the findings about the negative correlation between the reported, accused and convicted persons, in this research we have used the statistics method, the method of content analysis, comparisons, correlations, deductions and inductions as well as descriptions and synthesis by which the goal of the research has been achieved - to notice and recognize the loss of crimes in the domestic violence.

Keywords

• criminal charges
• accused
• convicted
• family violence
• loss of crimes