The perception of crime from Albanian families that come from rural areas (Case study in the city of Durres)

AuthorMarjeta Milloshi
Pages212-217
ISSN 2410-3918 Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol 1 No 2
Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania July 2015
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e perception of crime from Albanian families that come from rural areas
(Case study in the city of Durres)
Marjeta Milloshi, PhD Cand
Abstract
Crime in the family constitutes one of the major concerns of recent years in Albania. Violence
in Albanian families remains unnoticed and is not declared by the majority of those aected.
e worst is that there are deep rural areas where violence is accepted as normal within a family.
Many studies have come to the conclusion that women who have higher education tend to be
better prepared to cope with domestic disputes and solve the problems with communication, so
are less likely to be victims of physical violence. e economic, cultural, emotional and social
factors are sources that generate violence or crime within the family. e transition from a
totalitarian to a democratic society brought not only functional changes, but also dierences in
their implementation. is was accompanied by misunderstandings of the individual crisis and
human rights. is misunderstanding is oen associated with deviant behavior or by criminal acts.
Poverty, unemployment, jealousy, alcohol and drugs are some of the main reasons that cause
domestic violence. Albania has long been considered a patriarchal society where men have
more rights than women. is dierence has led to a situation where husbands continue to see
themselves as more superior, and tend to violate their women or children. In recent years poverty
has even increased bringing domestic violence to alarming levels. But besides the major problem
of growing violence within the family, the biggest problem is the failure of declaration, because of
the mentality, shame, lack of trust in government bodies etc. is problem is even greater in rural
areas, where there is a lack of police structures, while NGOs cannot cover the whole country. is
study was concentrated in the city of Durres, where 600 surveys were undertaken to people of
dierent ages. is paper is focused in the way of how domestic violence is seen by citizens of the
city of Durres and those coming from rural areas.
Keywords: Domestic violence, rural areas, emancipation, totalitarian society, Durres.
Introduction
Rural areas in Albania have major problems in terms of poverty, access to police, or
other state institutions. While the culture for reporting to police or other institutions or
organizations that deal with these problems is their mentality, biggest problem is that a
large part of domestic violence is currently tolerated, even accepted (Giddens, 2007). In
fact, according to Giddens, the statistics show that men of any age tend to be subject of
physical violence more at home than on the road at night. Many studies show that many
couples are convinced that in some circumstances it is entirely justied for a husband to
hit his wife.
Most rural families in Albania tend to respect traditional roles where the husband works,
while the woman stays at home to raise children and do the homework. us in cases of
domestic violence, the husband isolates the wife from outdoor activities and exercises
systematic violence on her and his children. Because of the mountainous areas, it is
dicult to have any support due to distance and the abused women can be victims of
violence for very long periods of time. ey rarely dare to travel to “the big city” according
to them, where everything seems dierent. e appropriate way to express male control

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