CHILDREN AS VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES OF FAMILY VIOLENCE

Abstract

Domestic violence as a negative social phenomenon and incriminated behavior is present in our country. This is also a global phenomenon that manifests itself in different forms and shapes all over the world. As the very syntax ‘’violence in the family’’ means, this is violence that occurs within the family, whose actors are its members. In this sense, children appear as victims or perpetrators of these crimes. Accordingly, the subject of this work is defined, as it is titled. The goal is to determine, through statistical analysis of available data, the extent of children who have been recorded as victims of violence, as well as children who have been recorded as perpetrators of violence in the Republic of Srpska for the period from 2019 to 2023. Also, the causes and consequences of domestic violence are reviewed, with a special emphasis on the so-called transgenerational transmission of violence as a consequence of domestic violence seen in a wider context.