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There have been profound social transformations in
Portugal in the last 50 years. Portugal currently adheres to the
international and European agenda to prevent domestic violence.
In the chapter the Portuguese legislation and the reporting
figures regarding domestic violence, the role of the Law
Enforcement Agencies, other first responder agencies, and
pertinent stakeholders in responding to high impact domestic
violence, as well as the National Network for the Support of
Victims of Domestic Violence, are addressed. The authors also
discuss good practices and significant challenges. Two of these
are intertwined – none of them is quickly addressed, nor can they
be addressed by themselves. One is developing a collective
attitude that considers domestic violence as unacceptable
behaviour, besides being punished by the criminal law. The other
is directly posed to the law enforcement agencies and has to do
with the increasing complexity of the operational procedures
(derived from the new tools presented by the government
recently). The problem of elites provoking social change on a
superlative level is to forget that adopting new social models is
not achieved by decree but through social influence processes,
which takes time.
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domestic violence Portugal Interagency cooperation victims police NGO
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University of Maribor. University Press