(2018) 4/2 Visn. Nac. akad. prokur. Ukr. 45–57
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Title of the article	Legal Framework of Prosecutor’s Office Activity on Preventing Domestic Violence
Author(s)	OLEKSANDR SVIRIN Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, chief research officer, department of scientific and methodological support of prosecutor’s activity outside the criminal justice sphere, Scientific and Research Institute, National Prosecution Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, alexsvirin55@gmail.com
Short title of the journal (ISSN)	Visn. Nac. akad. prokur. Ukr.
Year	2018
Issue	4/2
Pages	[45–57]
Language	Ukrainian
Abstract	For a long time, family relations remained outside the sphere of legal regulation of the state, since any interference in these relations was regarded as a violation of the privacy of the private life. Today, domestic violence is one of the most acute and most widespread problems in the world. It is present in all social groups, does not depend on the status of the person, his/her level of income and other factors. Cases of violence are becoming more and more common in both dysfunctional and quite decent families. Most often, women and children who are the least protected category from all suffer from this unlawful act. The purpose of the article is to analyze the current legislation concerning the prevention of domestic violence, as well as to provide a list of normative legal acts regulating activities in this area, aimed at targeting the employees of the prosecutor’s offices on this issue. Taking into consideration the set goals, a number of normative legal acts, which form the basis of the national legislation concerning combating and preventing crime, are considered. Some ECHR judgments, which courts apply as a source of law in case trials, are analyzed. It is concluded that the prosecutor’s office should play a major role in the fight against domestic violence. To a certain extent, it can do so independently, but above all its efforts should be aimed at coordinating the activities of other law enforcement agencies in this area, overseeing their activity to increase the effectiveness of a response. In addition, the problem of ensuring the completeness of the data on the victims, as well as the relationship between the of ender and the victim, and improving the procedure for collecting information about the victims, in particular regarding the submission of personal data, is to be solved. Thus, due to legislative changes and taking into account the possibilities of the functioning of the Unified Register of the Pre-Trial Investigation, there is an urgent need to systematize statistics on preventing and combating domestic violence and to arrange them in the form of a table.
Keywords	family; child; domestic violence; the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.
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