The features and notion of violence, as well as the features of the objective side of the crime «domestic violence» are analyzed. It has been established that violence is the deliberate influence on the person’s body or psyche in order to harm his/her life, health or to restrict or deprive of his/her freedom (including freedom of expression of will). The following features of the objective side of the crime «domestic violence» are analyzed: the act – the systematic commission of physical, psychological or economic violence – and the consequences in the form of physical or psychological sufferings, health problems, disability, emotional dependence or deterioration in the quality of life of the victim. It is noted that the impact on the human psyche with the purpose of causing harm to his/her life, health or freedom, which has caused or could cause such harm, should be called violence. Nevertheless, one should not protect against such violence only a limited number of people named as potential victims in Article 126-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Each person requires this kind of protection. It is stressed that if the so-called «economic offenses» are committed not by influencing the body or psyche of an individual and not with the purpose of causing harm to life, health or freedom, it is obvious that one could not talk about violence, even if it is referred to as «economic». If the victim is deprived of housing, food, clothing, etc. with the purpose of causing sufferings to him/her, then it is violence. If the same is done for mercenary or other purposes, then it is a property or other crime, provided for by the Criminal Code of Ukraine, but not violence. On the same principle, other forms of the so-called «economic violence» should be considered. And then there will be no need to introduce a new type of violence to the Criminal Code of Ukraine. It is concluded that by means of including into the meaning of the concept of domestic violence of the acts that are not recognized as violence in other crimes, the legislator has violated both the rules of logic and the principle of accuracy and unity of the legal terminology. It is proved that «deterioration in the quality of life» and «emotional dependence» cannot be the features of the crime since these concepts are so indefinite and wide that also include the situations that cannot and should not be the subject-matter of criminal law regulation. It is indicated that there is the need to change the formulation of the objective side of the crime «domestic violence».