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Abstract

The notion “domestic violence” and types of violence: financial, physical, sexual, psychological are covered in the article. Typology of aggressive manifestations concerning criteria of influence of motivation component: impulsive, instrumental, violence for the sake of violence, aggressive drive, violence through emotional pressure, forced, violence as a manifestation of individual and group solidarity; and “non-obvious” violent deeds: pedagogical violence, sociolizational, informational, imposture, indifference as violence are analyzed. Theories, that explain the nature of domestic violence: situational, social changes, symbolic interaction, social and historic or socio-cultural, systematic and family, individual and psychological are characterized in the paper. The author shows the determinants of destructive conflict and violence: spiritual degradation, neglecting religious and universal values, crises of morality, condition of anomie, liberalization of sexual morality, patriarchal, authoritarian traditions, spreading of false gender stereotypes, gender inequality in society and others. Factors of risk, conditioned by the structure of family and communication model: incomplete and family with many children, stepfather in family or foster parents, problems between parents, passing of negative experience from elder generation to younger, parents, who were victims or witnessed violence are tendentious to act the same in communication with own children, emotional and physical isolation of family, conflict or violent relationship of a child and parents are also covered in the article. Psychology of parents’ personality: their psychological features, negative attitude to environment, low level of social skills, condition of psychological health as well as psychology of children: undesirable children, prematurely-born children with wounded or acquired mutilation, low intellect, health defection, etc. Domestic violence is a form of destructive social and psychological interaction that reflect its general trouble and violation in valuable and normative sphere of individuals

Keywords: violence, types of domestic violence, theory of violence, factors, factors of risk

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