Intentional interpersonal violence: Epidemiological and analytical study about 973 cases at the forensic unit in Habib BOURGUIBA University Hospital in Sfax, Tunisia

Violence represents a serious societal problem which plagues all over the world. In this paper, we aim to study the effect of this phenomenon on the region of Sfax,(the second city of Tunisia) to describe socio-epidemiological characteristics of victims and recall medico-legal consequences of this violence on the aggressor particularly in the light of organic law n ° 58–2017 of August 11th 2017 on the abolition of violence against women. A retrospective descriptive and analytical study was carried out, over a period of 3 months from October 1st 2019, to December 31st 2019, including all cases of interpersonal violence. 973 cases of victims of interpersonal violence were examined in our unit for assault and battery consultation. It represents 50,8% of all consultants. The median age was 30 ± 15,5 years. The most affected age group was children (