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believe that sexual activities can stabilize the relationship in general;
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convinced that no one can help them solve the problem of violence, etc. [3, p.
146].
The above-listed features can be called victimal qualities of women – the victims
of domestic violence. Notably, they characterize specifically the psychophysiological
basis of the personality, that is, they explicate the individual victimization of this
category of persons.
A large number of women become victims of the crime under the influence of a
coincidence of negative circumstances. Physical capabilities restrict women in ways
and means of protection from the attack. Assessing their own strength realistically,
women almost always experience fear that paralyzes their will and consciousness,
thereby generating inadequate behaviors. Among women who have become victims of
domestic violence, there are five times more suicide attempts than among women who
have not suffered this misfortune. Women don't see another way out of a conflict
situation when they are subjected to violent actions and choose suicide as an escape
from bullying.
As far back as at the beginning of the last century, a French sociologist É.
Durkheim proved that married women are more likely to suffer from physical and
mental illnesses than single ones. This phenomenon applies to suicides as well. The
number of suicides among married women and single men is higher than that of single
women and married men [21, p. 349]. Married women tend to have mental inhibitions
and quite often they are on the verge of mental disorders. There are three times more
married women who suffer from neurotic diseases compared to single women [22, p.
57]. This is caused precisely by the inequality of women in the family – when it is built
on the power of the man and the submission of the woman. The perpetrators of violence
against the weaker sex are the advocates of the patriarchal attitudes to the roles of the
two sexes. Namely, in the mind of potential aggressors, marriage is considered not as
a union of equal personalities, the primary task of which is mutual support and trust,
but as a union of submission and domination.
We agree with A. A. Glukhova's view that the explanation of the high
victimization of women in the context of domestic violence should be sought not in the
fatal inclination of all women to become victims, but in the double standard of morality,
in the nature and stereotypes of gender relations that have developed historically and
dominate in modern society [23, p. 41]. It is a democratic society that must create such
conditions in a country that would protect and safeguard the rights and interests of
disadvantaged and vulnerable members of society and eliminate any manifestations of
gender inequality and gender-based violence.
The criminal offenses against women are directly correlated with their limited
access to judicial proceedings, poverty, social exclusion, and gender inequality. The
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