Jurnalul de studii juridice supliment 4-2012 - Editura Lumen

European and International Marks on the FamilyViolence[Semne europene şi internaţionale cu privire la violenţa înfamilie]Lavinia Mihaela VLĂDILĂ 1AbstractThe adoption in Romania of the Law no. 217/2003 regarding the familyviolence was the result of a broader process that has been done in several Europeancountries. Beyond the manifest need to do something at the legislative level, in order tostop this phenomenon, the law was also the fruit of the accession of Romania to theeuropean area of Justice, as well as the ratification of international conventionsregarding the aggression whose victims are primarily women and children.In the conditon of what the advertising space was recently occupied by adisturbing news about the killing of two women and wounding seriously four other, ongrounds of jealousy, it is necessary to amend the existing law. This time the action wasprompt and in line with European regulations.On the latter we will lean out the study, and in particular, on the correlationbetween national legislation and the European one.Keywords:family violence, the violence against women, physical violence, verbal violence,order of protection.1 Ph. D. Lecturer, University Valahia of Târgovişte, Faculty of Law and Social-PoliticalSciences and the Department of Distance Learning and Continuing Training, E-mail:laviniavladila@yahoo.com227Copyright Jurnalul de Studii Juridice, Editura Lumen