Abstract
Over the last two decades, combating domestic violence has been one of our country's main goals. Serbia is one of the 12 countries that have ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Prevention and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (the Istanbul Convention) before its entry into force on August 1, 2014, and as of June 1, 2017 the Law on the Prevention of Domestic Violence (LPDV) has been used in Serbia, which was adopted with the aim of regulating in a general and uniform manner the organization and conduct of state authorities and institutions, thereby enabling the effective prevention of domestic violence and the prompt, timely and effective protection and support for victims of domestic violence. Prescribing emergency measures has radically changed the way the victims of domestic violence are protected. In this paper, we will explore and try to answer several questions: what measures are available to state institutions to prevent violence and protect victims; whether the competent authorities and institutions apply these measures and to what extent; whether it was necessary to introduce urgent measures into our legal system and, finally, whether the activities to combat domestic violence so far produce results, that is, whether this negative social phenomenon is sufficiently suppressed.
Highlights
Over the last two decades, combating domestic violence has been one of our country’s main goals
Law (FL), as well as the earlier Law on Marriage and Family Relations (The Law on Marriage and Family Relations, The Official Gazette of the Socialist Republic of Serbia Nos. 22/80, 24/84, 11/88, 22/93, 25/93, 35/94, 46/95, 29/01), oes not define family.It is useful to determine the concept of family in the legal literature as the “fundamental and supreme notion of family law”(Panov, 2012: 33)
From the above we conclude that the Serbian legal system stipulates a number of measures that can be implemented in combating domestic violence, whereby it is up to the competent authorities in each particular case to choose the most appropriate and implement them
Summary
“Marriage and family as institutions in modern society are of the utmost importance for establishing normal relations in society and for the development of new generations. 2 http://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf , accessed on February 25, 2019 It is impossible not to notice that this definition of domestic violence introduces into our legal system, in addition to marital and non-marital family relations, partner relationship as well as economic violence as a form of domestic violence in accordance with Article 3 of the Istanbul Convention (Kolarić, Marković: 2016: 23). In the text of this paper the author will analyse the strategy of combating domestic violence in the Republic of Serbia, and will try to answer the question how, in what way and by what methods it is possible to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the internal affairs authorities in order to achieve better results in confronting this negative social phenomenon
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