Analysis of practical application of the Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence with a view on applying urgent measures

Abstract

By adopting the Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence, our country has chosen a more determined and more intensive fight against domestic violence. In this way, the significance of the preventive action of the competent state authorities is even more emphasized, and consequently, zero tolerance towards the perpetrators and possible perpetrators of domestic violence has been introduced. The Law on Prevention of Domestic Violence started to be applied on June 1, 2017 and given the previous period of being applied, certain conclusions can be drawn regarding the efficiency of the application of this law. In this regard, the subject of this paper is primarily the analysis of the practical application of urgent measures, the measure of temporary removal of the perpetrator from the apartment and the measure of temporary prohibition for the perpetrator to contact or approach the victim, imposed by the police, the public prosecutor and the court. This research will cover a period of one year of applying of the law, i.e. the period from June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018, and the statistical method will be used, as well as the methods of analysis, deduction, comparison and description. The paper will analyse both the total and the individual number of urgent measures imposed by the police, and a part of the research will be dedicated to the analysis of the territorial distribution of the imposed urgent measures on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. Special attention will be paid to imposing of extended urgent measures by the court, and a significant aspect of the investigation will be dedicated to the issue of violations of the imposed urgent measures.