ABSTRACT
Statistics show that more than one in three women around the globe are victims of domestic violence. Different cultural and socio-economic factors explain how and why domestic violence is perpetuated, perpetrated, and how it affects women globally. The phenomenon of domestic violence against women is, without doubt, a terrible evil and a serious societal plague. This chapter examines in brief the phenomenon of domestic violence against women, according to the various aspects enumerated above, while in the background the central question with which those who deal with eradicating the phenomenon must deal is constantly present. The argument is that due to this unclear and shallow perception and the nature of the phenomenon of domestic violence, the legal system, including the judicial justice that it creates, causes indescribable injustice to battered women. It seems that a different kind of systemic thinking is necessary.
