Domestic violence includes the Offences Against the Person chapter in the Penal Code (with the exception of crimes against the deceased), robbery and serious violation of public order in cases where the crime has been committed by a current or former spouse or partner of the victim.
It may also be violence by relatives, in-laws, or others in close relationships, regardless of whether the perpetrator lives or lived in the same quarters as the victim. In addition to acts of violence, domestic violence can also occur in cases such as harassing pursuit, violation of restriction orders, or other crimes.
Other types of crime have also been recorded as domestic violence, but at a significantly smaller scale, such as threatening, harassing pursuit, contact sex crimes and other violent crimes. In the cases of subsection 121 (2) p. 2 of the Penal Code, cases of physical abuse between both current and former partners, children and parents as well as other family members and close relatives.
