Prices of domestic violence: What losses do the States have? 

Except for moral damage negative impact on the psychology of the other members of the family, children, domestic violence causes economic losses in a country scale.

For all those who believe that violence prevention, protection of victims, prosecution of those who are responsible for it, the measures proposed by the Council of Europe Convention are very expensive; losses as a result of violence against women in different countries were estimated.

In some Council of Europe member countries, the total losses caused by violence against women can reach up to 34 billion Euros.

In Armenia economic loss caused to the country because of the violence by the initial estimate is from 400 thousand to 1.1 million US dollars, says the results are
”Diagnostic study of discrimination against women”.

In 2006, EU countries domestic violence-related costs amounted to 16 billion Euros or 33 Euros per capita per every half-hour to 1 million Euros.

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