Prevention of domestic violence as one of the priority areas of preventive policing: Legal regulations and international experience

Prevención de la violencia doméstica como una de las áreas prioritarias de la actividad policial preventiva: Normativa legal y experiencia internacional

• Ivan Ishchenko National Police in Vinnytsia Region, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0873-5207
• Oleksandr Korol Department of Police Activity and Public Administration, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4203-4443
• Nataliia Hridina Department of Police Activity and Public Administration, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8499-074X
• Mykola Tyshlek Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs. Ukraine https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7221-6519
• Nadiya Nosevych Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1112-9788

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.4179.10

Keywords: international experience, domestic violence, legal regulation, preventive tasks, police units of preventive activities

Abstract

The aim of the research was to study the norms of the current Ukrainian and international legislation, the positions of scientists, educational and reference literature, as well as statistical data, to determine the legal position of the National Police as a subject of prevention and countermeasures against families’ victims of violence. In its basic content the article discloses the legal position of the National Police as a subject of prevention and action against domestic violence, performing preventive, police and human rights protection functions. In this context, it was determined that the National Police, as a public authority, implements special measures to prevent and counteract domestic violence, applying, if necessary, administrative coercive measures against offenders. The methodological basis of the research was the comparative legal and systemic analysis, the formal legal method, the method of interpretation, the hermeneutic method, as well as the methods of analysis and synthesis. As a conclusion it is noted that an important aspect of improving the activities of the National Police in Ukraine is to build confidence in the affected families, who are afraid to report the facts of domestic violence for fear of condemnation from the society. 

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