 | "Domestic violence and crime: research on experience of domestic violence among female and male inmates" | | | Research with the support of the Crime Prevention Committee of the Ministry of Justice of Hungary.
| | | The aim of MONA's project is to do primarily qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews among 50 female and 50 male inmates (sentenced for murder/attempt of murder) on their experience of domestic violence to find out: whether women have been victims/survivors of domestic violence, whether men were as children victims of DV and became perpetrators later on, and how whether their crime is in connection with that experience. | | Further aims of the project are to point out that the majority of the women sentenced for killing an intimate partner or family member had suffered abuse from them - a known fact in Hungarian prisons, yet noone has analysed this phenomenon yet.
Likewise, patterns in the experiences of men need to be shown: what part domestic violence played in their lives as children and as adults. We expect that the research findings expose when, why and how authorities failed to intervene in these people's lives - as the long-term goal is to propose policy changes.
The research study is already available on the MONA-site in Hungarian.
Program coordinator: Réka Sáfrány |
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ALTRA Project (2006-2008) 
