to violent acts by one family member against another may involve a certain element of
revenge (an act of reckoning, repaying evil for evil [12, p.51]) for a married life that
hasn't worked out or for disrespect for the authority of the parents. As stated by V. Fox,
relationships within the family are characterized by mental tension, the pathological
form of which can be a sadomasochistic model that generates frustration. Mental
tension, which is accumulated in a family person, needs some discharge, which is
expressed in aggression [13, p. 215]. Forms of discharge may include quarrels, verbal
abuse and, in extreme cases, physical violence. In turn, only a person who holds the
complex of willfulness and illusions will choose to commit violent actions against
another person (physical, psychological, sexual violence) and against themselves
(suicide) as a way to discharge the mental tension. So that a conflict situation in the
family-domestic sphere would turn into a particular life situation in which the crime is
committed (domestic violence), that is, a mechanism of criminal behavior would be
present, it is essential that the will and consciousness of the aggressor and the potential
victim be in a state of willfulness and illusions and manifested in the desire and the
ability of the aggressor to commit (during some period of time) some violent actions
against another family member (potential victim).
Quite often, when committing some violent actions, the aggressor does not
presume (though they'd better do) that they may lead to unpredictable consequences.
Every person should understand that by resorting to some form of violence with the
aim to resolve an interpersonal conflict in the sphere of family-domestic relations, they
create conditions for spreading the process of victimization throughout one's own
family.
Characteristics of victim behavior of women as victims of domestic violence.
The Platform for Action, endorsed by the Fourth United Nations World Conference on
Women, held in Beijing in 1995, identified violence as one of the twelve issues of the
highest concern. 25 years have passed since then, but the number of violent crimes the
victims of which are women increases every year ever larger. Among victims of
domestic violence in countries worldwide, there are more women than men [4, p. 111;
14, p. 27; 15, p. 62; 16, p. 115]. Different kinds of abuse towards women have become
the most widespread form of aggression in modern society. The massive number of
severe violent crimes have been committed within the family. Female victims of
family-domestic conflicts make up the most numerous group among those who have
been killed and who have survived the crimes. Nearly a third of women who have been
beaten suffer from prolonged depression, some of them begin to abuse alcohol and
drugs, many of them need medical assistance.
Criminal offenses against women are conventionally defined as those which are a
combination of socially dangerous and unlawful deliberate acts that encroach on the
life, health or physical integrity of a woman, combined with physical or mental
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