Features of specific life situations accompanying female violence against intimate partners

The article is devoted to the analysis of situations that caused the determination of women to commit unlawful violent assault against a spouse (or cohabitant), contributing to or preventing such violence, as well as forms of aggressive behavior of women in such situations. The authors consider the varieties of specific life situations based on their a) content content (conflict, criminogenic, conflict-criminogenic, contributing, problematic, neutral and anti-criminogenic), b) period of existence (lasting, relatively lasting, brief), c) suddenness of occurrence (regularly observed by the aggressor, repeatedly observed, unexpected). It is characterized by the manifestation in a specific life situation and criminally non-punishable forms of aggressive behavior of women (psycho-emotional, economic violence), often closely related to physical aggression. The analysis of empirical material allowed the authors to come to the conclusion that violent unlawful acts against spouses (cohabitants) are most often committed by women leading an antisocial lifestyle in conditions of conflict-criminogenic, lasting, repeatedly observed specific life situation, accompanied by aggressive violent behavior of the partner. Psycho-emotional, economic forms of aggression (using profanity, expressing negative assessments of a partner's personal qualities, humiliation in public, manipulation, deprivation of funds) do not directly determine criminal behavior, but often precede or accompany it; they are common in conflict, problematic, neutral, regularly observed by a woman situations. Psycho-emotional, economic forms of aggression (using profanity, expressing negative assessments of a partner's personal qualities, humiliation in public, manipulation, deprivation of funds) do not directly determine criminal behavior, but often precede or accompany it; they are common in conflict, problematic, neutral, regularly observed by a woman situations. The empirical basis was the results of surveys of citizens and employees of internal affairs bodies, materials of judicial practice. The presented material may be of interest for further study of family aggression both within the framework of criminophamilistics and gender psychology.