ACTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE TO COMBAT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. CONFIGURING AND EFFICIENT LEGAL FRAMEWORK

Abstract

It is mandatory that we discuss aspects relating to violence within the family, since this phenomenon has appeared because of social problems that lately afflict more and more families. When it manifests itself within the family and the relationships that exist here, violence is terribly destabilising, both on a material as well as a moral level. Therefore, it is essential that any measures taken must be to both combat family violence, and also to mend its consequences, when they were unavoidable. Explicit provisions referring to family violence can be found in several areas of law, from criminal, civil and administrative to family and social law, as there is, in this case, an increasing tendency to elaborate upon the laws that already exist in this field, to interpret them and to firmly set their guidelines in order to render them clearer and more precise, and therefore applicable in cases of domestic violence. Keywords Violence, family violence, criminal, civil and administrative to family and social law, domestic violence