The effect of rural development policy on domestic violence

This work intends to connect rural development policies with the occurrence of domestic violence in the rural areas of Tuzla Canton. Domestic violence is a wide spread form of violence and a discrimination against women. Domestic violence includes all forms of violence occurring in the family, expanding the possibilities that perpetrators of violence and victims of violence may even be persons who do not live in the family but are related to family members. Research results show that 90% of women are victims of domestic violence and that domestic violence is constantly increasing each year. This paper uses data acquired from Federal Office of Statistics of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and statistical data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tuzla Canton. On the basis of the gathered data, the authors employed the descriptive method, the method of analysis and synthesis, as well as the comparative method of analysis.