Family and Domestic Violence: The Modern Status and the Place of a District Police Officer in Its Combating
Based on a systematic analysis, the article examines the current state of the activities of the internal affairs bodies in combating domestic violence, determines the influence of decriminalization and subsequent administrative torture of beatings on crime in the domestic sphere, as well as the place and role of the district authorized police in countering family crime household sphere. The study becomes the basis for the conclusion that the decrease in the number of crimes on household grounds was the result of decriminalization of minor crimes (beatings) and their transfer to the number of administrative offenses, which, in turn, firstly turned into effective administrative and legal household crime prevention means, including in the sphere of family-domestic relations. Secondly, this led to a decrease in the latency of offenses committed in the sphere of family-domestic relations, as well as an increase in the preventive potential laid down in the norms of administrative-tort legislation. In addition, the author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to administratively torture family quarrels (violence) as a condition for increasing the preventive potential of administrative and tort legislation in counteracting offenses committed in the field of family and domestic relations