The family as the basic unit of society, and is community of family members by giving them shelter, security and love. Furthermore this the violence is happening in the family betwee/over family members, usually those, who are weaker and unable to defent themselves. Since the family is part of the private sphere of society, the violence, that is happening in, it is hidden from the public view. Domestic violence is a common and complex phenomenon, where one person keeping control and domination over another person. Violence against women is a repeated offense committed by a person who knows the victims. Over time, the violence moves to a level that victims of violence may also be children or the elderly, who live in the same family. Victims of violence needs a lot of support, and itself must overlooked that is living in a violent relationship and should resist it by possible resource to assistance by the competent authorities and institutions that operate in the fight against domestic violence. Because of the perpetrators threats, the latter shall remain unreported and unpunished. Violence against women takes many forms that accompany a victim of violence at every behavior of violente partner, the comsequences are long-lasting and irreversible, because victims need a lot of time to re-consolidate their own lives. In the project is specifically investigated the phenomenon of violence against women and the risk of the latter, in which lagerly affect family (un) life, unequal distribution of power, alcohol and illicit substances, social (in) tolerance towards violence, jealousy, unemployment, history of violence and registration of violence to the competent authorities.

Družina kot osnovna celica družbe, je skupnost družinskih članov, ki jim nudi zavetje, varnost in ljubezen. A kljub temu prihaja tudi v družini do nasilja med/nad družinskimi člani, običajno tistimi, ki so šibkejši in se ne morejo braniti. Ker je družina dela zasebne sfere v družbi, je nasilje, ki se dogaja v njej skrito očem javnosti. Nasilje v družini je pogost in kompleksen pojav, pri katerem ena oseba izvaja nadzor in prevlado nad drugo osebo. Nasilje nad ženskami je ponavljajoče se dejanje, storjeno s strani osebe, ki žrtev pozna. Sčasoma lahko nasilje preide do stopnje, da so žrtve tudi otroci ali starejši, ki živijo v isti družini. Žrtev nasilja potrebuje veliko podpore, saj mora sama spregledati dejstvo, da živi v nasilnem odnosu in se temu upreti, ob čemer se lahko posluži pomoči pristojnih organov in institucij, ki delujejo v boju proti nasilju v družini. Velikokrat pa se dogaja, da zaradi groženj s strani nasilneža, slednji ostane neprijavljen in nekaznovan. Nasilje nad ženskami ima več oblik, ki žrtev spremljajo ob vsakem nasilnem vedenju partnerja, posledice pa so dolgotrajne in nepopravljive, saj žrtev potrebuje veliko časa za ponovno utrditev lastnega življenja. V magistrski nalogi natančneje raziskujemo pojav nasilja nad ženskami ter tveganje za pojav slednjega, na kar v veliki meri vplivajo družinsko (ne)življenje, neenakost porazdelitve moči, alkohol in prepovedane substance, družbena (ne)tolerantnost do nasilja, ljubosumje, brezposelnost, zgodovina nasilja in prijava nasilja pristojnim organom.