The presence of the very idea to resolve a certain interpersonal conflict by
violating social and legal norms, with resorting to violence, is already a manifestation
of the complex of willfulness and illusions in a person. In turn, the complex of
willfulness and illusions should be understood as the inconsistency between the will
and consciousness of a person and the natural laws of social life, which changes the
will into the state of willfulness, and the consciousness – into the state of illusion [6, p.
74]. After all, a person whose will and consciousness accord with the laws of nature
will try to resolve any conflict in keeping with social norms and will never resort to
violence against another person only to impose their own point of view.
Some scientists identify the following general criminological causes of family-
domestic crime:
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the deterioration in the living standards, and socio-economic instability (which
sometimes leads to contradictions between the natural desire to have a child and the
economic status; the impossibility to develop one's talents, cultural requests);
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the reduction in the number of jobs and the resulting unemployment;
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the propaganda of violence and cruelty prevalent in mass media, primarily on
television; the destructive influence of video production;
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the spread of alcoholism and drug abuse;
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the mindset of individual survival, which is entrenched in the collective
consciousness, the lack of social ideals, a certain ideological vacuum in society and the
crisis of morality;
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the prevalence of informal (officially unregistered) marriages, and, as a
consequence, lower level of family solidarity, increase in the number of divorces and
in the percentage of single-parent families;
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the low efficiency of the system of material assistance to families who need it;
the general material dependence of women on men [3, p. 127].
In addition, sometimes, the statements are made that interpersonal conflicts in the
family-domestic sphere, often the violent ones, occur due to: the struggle for
leadership; the uneven material provision of different segments of the population;
alcoholism and drug abuse [2, p. 194]; the psychological incompatibility of the
individuals [7, p. 72]; one of the partners having difficulties in adaptation (adjustment)
to the conditions of living together in which a new family should develop; a low moral
standing of a married couple or a negative moral-psychological change in one of the
partners; venting one's irritation caused by problems at work in the relationship with
family members [8, p. 42].
For modern society, the phenomenon of massive alcoholism is characteristic,
which causes a distortion of a lifestyle and the proneness to conflict increases; the
perception of specific life situations becomes distorted. The ability to regulate one's
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