The role of forensic medicine in preventing domestic violence.

Abstract

A domestic abuse is any kind of violent act, physically or emotionally, that take place between the members of a family. A domestic abuse may be a physical, mental or sexual aggression. The authors establish, upon their medical experience, that this kind of violence involves women as victims and it is considered to be one of the major reasons for destroying the relationship between the members of a family. Based on this fact the authors presented a statistical case on the domestic abuse on women. They illustrated a statistical case with graphics and tables containing items that show: the age of the victims, medium of providence, the mechanism of making the wounds, the factors that encouraged the domestic abuse and the circumstance of the aggressors. The conclusions they reached can be considered an alarm signal on the gravity of this social phenomenon.