일본에서의 Domestic Violence 피해의 현상과 Family Violence 개념 도입에 대한 검토 = The Current State of the DV Damage in Japan and the Consideration about Introducing a Family Violence Concept

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The passage of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act of 2001 (‘DV Prevention Act’) carries significance for the fact that it stipulates that DV is not merely a dispute between spouses, but that the Japanese Government bears responsibility for developing DV policy. However, because support for victims based on the DV Prevention Act is limited to the activities of existing institutions and systems, the content of victim support varies widely between regions as this support turns largely on the interest towards the financial circumstances and measures taken by the local government. In Japan, legal frameworks for DV, stalker, child abuse, elder abuse, etc that facilitate intervention into problems that arise between family members and other close relationships have been developed, but these are all codified in separate legal documents. It will soon be 14 years since the DV Prevention Act was enacted, but does the general population have the understanding that domestic violence is being a crime? What shall we do support for victims from now?