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Ensuring the rights of women who are victims of intimate partner violence in Lithuania: A literature review

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  • Ilona Michailovič,
  • Ramunė Jakštienė
Ilona Michailovič
Vilnius University, Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Justice
Ramunė Jakštienė
Institute of Law at the Lithuanian Centre for Social Sciences

Published 2026-04-16

Keywords

  • crime victims’ rights,
  • intimate partner violence (IPV),
  • women as victims of IPV,
  • victim support services,
  • criminal justice system

Copyright (c) 2026 Ilona Michailovič, Ramunė Jakštienė

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“Ensuring the rights of women who are victims of intimate partner violence in Lithuania: A literature review: Zapewnienie praw kobietom doświadczającym przemocy ze strony partnerów na Litwie: przegląd literatury” (2026) Archives of Criminology, p. 36 pp. doi:10.7420/AK2025.09.
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Abstract

In 2019, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), an independent centre of excellence for promoting and protecting human rights, conducted research to take a closer look at the experiences of female victims of partner violence as they encountered the criminal justice system. The fieldwork covered seven EU countries, excluding Lithuania. The objective of this paper is to examine the findings of the FRA research on the state of knowledge in Lithuania. A narrative literature review methodology focussing on qualitative synthesis was utilised. Following a database search, 15 research studies that met the inclusion/exclusion criteria were selected for analysis. The findings in the case of Lithuania fully support the conclusion reached by the FRA, that the most problematic areas in ensuring the rights of women as victims of partner violence are the lack of effective protection against repeat victimisation and insufficient support services. Additionally, the paper not only verifies whether similar problems are present in other studies, but also expands on the findings of the FRA study by exploring urgent issues in the national system of protecting IPV victims’ rights.

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