Dear Hongman In Taiwan the Family Violence Prevention Act (FVPA) was passed in 1998. The transition of legislation has been taking place when the FVPA was passed. Basically, the Act emphasised the mandatory report for statutory agencies. The prevention and treatment of family violence were one of the main provisions of the Act and the definition included cohabitation. There is summary of this Act as given as below. Hope it will be useful information for you.
Mei-Kuei Yu School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research University of Kent at Canterbury, UK ********************************* 1.The Act must be implemented to promote: the protection and safety of all victims of family violence in a fair, prompt and effective manner and the prevention of further violence in all families. It is a sort of integrated law which includes civil law, criminal law, code of civil and criminal procedure, code of specific performance and so on. The most important part of the FVPA is in civil protection orders (s6-22) which require the respondent to stay away from the victim in order to protect the victim and prevent further violence. So, all victims of family violence can stay in their houses. Third parties, such as the police, social workers, and prosecutors, to make applications on behalf of abused women (s6). 2. The Act points out a specialised programme of intervention for perpetrators (s36) which accepts perpetrators of family violence into treatment or educational classes to satisfy court orders. There is also a victim support programme (s48) of family violence and their children that provides advocacy, refuge, crisis intervention, social services, treatment, counselling, education, training and so on. 3. The Act concerns the family and children, with such as factors as determining custody and visitation, issues concerning residence of children, conditions of visitation in cases involving family violence and the duty of a mediator to screen for family violence during mediation referred or ordered by court (s35-39). 4. Mandatory report and duties for each statutory agency are defined. This has led to the Creation of a national committee and of local Family Violence Prevention Centres (FVPCs) on family violence which increases the awareness and understanding of family violence and its consequences and thus reduces the incidence of family violence within the State (s5, s7-8, s45-58). http://law.moj.gov.tw/Scripts/Newsdetail.asp?NO=1D0050401 ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
