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中國是否需要設立專門的反家庭暴力法？立法者已經進入了最后的立項論證階段，評估立法的社會和法律環境是否成熟。

Lawmakers are entering their last stage of assessing China's need for a law against domestic violence and if the country's social and legal environments are ready for one.

在上一期的《解析中國》中，我們的嘉賓提到中國立法者和公民在設立反家暴法時需要思考的一些問題，比如家庭暴力的定義以及取證的難度。

In our last episode of Digest China, our guests mentioned several issues Chinese lawmakers and citizens have to think about when legislating domestic violence, for example, the concept of domestic violence itself and the difficulty in proving it.

究竟什么算是家庭暴力呢？毆打？當然。那么夫妻之間吵架爭執呢？這些在大多數家庭中都有發生。我們在一個叫helpguide.org的網站上找到了一個很有意思的清單。它列舉了一系列家庭中遭受虐待的跡象，該網站說這些跡象通常會逐漸上升至暴力行為。

What really counts as domestic violence? Beating? Yes. But what about fights and arguments between couples? These things happen in most households. Well, we found an interesting checklist from a website called helpguide.org. It provides a list of signs of domestic abuse, which the website says often escalate to violence.

第一類，關于你的想法和感受。你害怕你的另一半嗎？你會刻意避免一些話題嗎？你感覺你做什么都不對嗎？

First category, about your inner thoughts and feelings. Do you feel afraid of your partner? Do you avoid certain topics? Do you feel you can't do anything right?

接下來的問題是關于你的伴侶的行為。你的伴侶輕視你、批評你、或是對你態度很差，讓你在親朋好友面前感覺十分尷尬？你的伴侶是否威脅要帶走或傷害你的孩子？或者你的伴侶表現出對你過度的控制欲，比如控制你用錢或時時刻刻監視你？

Then, there are questions about your partner's behaviors. Does your partner belittle you, criticize you or treat you so badly that you are embarrassed for your friends or family to see? Does your partner threaten to take your child away or harm him or her? Or does your partner act excessively controlling over you like limit your access to money or check up on you constantly?

然而在法律上，對這些問題回答“是”, 是否就能夠算作家庭暴力？如果可以，又怎么樣去證明呢？

Well, legislatively, can the "yeses" to these questions count as domestic violence? And if so, how can they be proven?

馮欣：很多時候，我們有這樣一個問題，到底什么樣的行為算是家庭暴力？

Feng Xin: Very often we face the question, what can be counted as domestic violence?

林建軍：所謂家庭暴力，這個主體一定是家庭成員。暴力行為方式可以包括身體暴力，然后還應該涵蓋性暴力，精神暴力以及經濟控制。結果實際上都是一樣的, 就是會造成施暴人對受害人的控制、占有、支配。經濟控制是什么意思呢？比如夫妻雙方, 一方對另外一方財務上的支出嚴格地控制。實際上，它的后果一樣是損害了另外一方的自尊和身心。理論上應當把它視為是一種暴力的形式，但是和剛才的精神暴力是一樣的，我個人認為這個操作起來也是難度非常大的，主要是取證很難，現在不宜去規制它。如果我們現在去規制它，可能會出現什么呢？寫進了法律, 但是兌現性極差, 兌現率極低, 等于法律的權威性大打折扣，但是不代表我理論上不認同它是一種暴力形式。

Lin Jianjun: In terms of domestic violence, the subjects must be family members. Violence can include physical violence, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and economic deprivation. The nature (of these behaviors) is the same, which is the perpetrator controls, possesses and manipulates the victim. What does economic deprivation mean? Take couples as an example; one person strictly controls the other on financial expenses. The result is that it hurts the other's self-esteem and mental health. Theoretically, it should be considered as a form of violence. However, similar to emotional abuse, I personally think there are a lot of operational difficulties, mainly because they are hard to prove. I think currently we should not regulate it. If we do it now, what might happen? We write it into the law，but are unable to exercise it or hardly carry it out. We will significantly undermine the authority of the law. But this doesn't mean I do not recognize them as forms of violence.

馮欣：定義還有一個問題，就是它包含的人群。家庭暴力是夫妻之間？還是父母子女之間？ 甚至是同居、戀愛、離異這些關系？還有一種更遠的就是同性之間的暴力。那么，您怎么看呢？我們的法律會不會或者應不應該包括這些所有的關系？

Feng Xin: There is another question about the definition: its coverage. Is domestic violence between couples, parents and children, cohabitating couples, dating couples or divorced couples? Also, is violence between same-sex couples domestic violence? What is your opinion? Will and should the law cover all these relationships?

林建軍：嚴格地從法律意義上說，同居、離婚以后的, 還有其他的伙伴，包括戀愛等等的關系不屬于家庭成員。但是，就其性質來說，與家庭暴力是一樣的，因為都有親情聯系, 而且都有感情糾葛，發生問題之后也很難像一般的陌生人之間的暴力通過不接觸就避免這種暴力的發生。所以從國際上來看, 目前對家庭暴力的保護通常也涵蓋到剛才說到的同居伙伴, 還有離異以后的前配偶這類的群體。那么具體到我們的立法，即使是叫“家庭”暴力, 也可以通過立法技術來解決這個問題。同居的，我們在立法技術上, 用“準用本法”就可以了。

Lin Jianjun: Strictly, from a legal perspective, cohabitating and divorced couples, as well as other partner relationships like dating and other types of partnerships, are not family members. But their nature is the same as domestic violence, because they all involve love connections and affection. It is different from violence between strangers, which you can avoid by not having contacts with each other. Internationally, domestic violence usually covers cohabitating couples as well as divorcees. When it comes to legislation, even if we (don't) call those situations "domestic" violence, we can extend the law to include them. We can use the phrase "law shall apply" when talking about cohabitating couples.

馮欣：那取證上面有難度嗎？

Feng Xin: What about getting evidence? Is it difficult?

林建軍：對警察來說障礙并不是很大。但我覺得主要不是警察取證困難，而是很多當事人最初根本不會想到他打我一次我就去離婚，所以，沒有這種意識，而且在暴力發生的時候，也很難去顧及通過什么形式把證據固定下來。這確實有難度。

Lin Jianjun: It's not too difficult for police. I don't think that's the main difficulty. Many women hardly seek divorce just because they were beaten once. They don't have that intention. When violence happens, it's very difficult to pay attention to keeping evidence in any form. It is quite hard.

馮欣：那現在法院在受理家暴案件的時候，一般會碰到哪些問題或者困難呢？

Feng Xin: When courts deal with cases of domestic violence, what problems or issues will they often encounter?

林建軍：法院主要問題是當事人說（有）家庭暴力, 常常有的是舉不出來太多的證據證明家庭暴力。那法院是不是采信, 這個同樣也是有難度的。

Lin Jianjun: The main problem for courts is that often when plaintiffs say there is domestic violence they can't prove it. Whether or not to believe it is a problem for courts.

馮欣：很多人說家庭暴力，顧名思義, 那是發生在家庭里面的事情。很多人擔憂我們出臺這樣一部法律, 會不會使公權力過多地介入到私人生活中。這個您怎么看？

Feng Xin: Many people say domestic violence is obviously something that happens within the family. Many worry that once we pass such a law,it will enable too much state power to intrude on private lives. What do you think?

林建軍：家庭暴力是已經發生一方對另一方施暴了，這已經不是說兩口子吵吵架這樣的行為了。只要是發生了暴力行為，實際上就是侵犯了對方的人權, 侵犯了對方的權利。所有侵犯公民權利的行為，當然應該由國家公權力出面去干預它, 不應（因為）它在婚內就使施暴人受到豁免。不可以。

Lin Jianjun: Domestic violence is already assault from one party to another. It is no longer simple altercations between couples. As long as it's violence, it's a violation of the other person's human rights. It’s a violation of the other person's human rights. In any violation of citizens' rights, state power should definitely intervene. The perpetrator shouldn't be exempt just because (the violence) happens within a marriage. Definitely not.

紅楓婦女心理咨詢服務中心是一個非政府組織。它于2012年4月做了一個網絡調查, 發現在1800多位受訪者中，有55%的人曾經遭受過某種形式的家庭暴力: 從輕微的身體傷害如扇耳光，到精神虐待，比如對方經常性的忽視和責罵。盡管調查問卷的問題可以具體到像我們為您列舉的那樣, 法律能否具有同樣的操作性呢？它能否達到立法者倡導的如教育和預防的目標, 而不是僅僅成為一個指導手冊呢？我們帶著這些問題采訪了王行娟, 她于1988年創建了紅楓婦女心理咨詢服務中心。

Maple Women's Psychological Counseling Center, a non-governmental organization, did an Internet survey in April 2012. It found nearly 55 percent of some 1,800 respondents have suffered various forms of domestic violence ranging from minor physical assaults, like face slapping, to mental abuse, like constant ignoring and blaming. Although survey questions can be as specific as the ones we showed you in our program, But can the law be just as operational? Can it achieve lawmakers' goals such as education and prevention rather than becoming a mere guidebook? We directed these questions to Wang Xingjuan，who founded the Maple Women's Psychological Counseling Center in 1988.

王行娟: 如果你是輕微傷害，你要到法院去告都不受理的，就到了這種程度。所以我就覺得一定要增加對輕微傷害, 可以輕罪，也要入罪。要進行判決。第二點意見，預防和制止家庭暴力需要有社會的整個支持系統。從頭到最后, 到最后挨打以后怎樣來進行保護，這個支持系統很重要。那么支持系統為什么建立不起來？那主要還是沒有經費，所以一定要有專項經費。這個法律當初要提出來要設立反家庭暴力專項經費，有這個錢，它才能夠（防止家暴）。第三個意見就是說要設立專門的機構, 就是說救助系統怎么樣完善。這也是國家的責任, 一定要很具體。否則法律即使出臺了, 它還是保證不了婦女的合法權益。

Wang Xingjuan: If you have minor injuries, courts won't hear your case even if you file suit. It's like that. So I think (the law) must specify cases of minor injuries. They can be misdemeanors, but they are crimes. The court must bring it to trial. Secondly, to stop and prevent domestic violence, we need a whole social support system from head to toe –for example, how a victim can be protected after she was beaten. This support system is very important. But why can't we establish such a system? Money is the main reason. Therefore, we must have special funding. When the law proposal was first brought out, it specified we needed to establish such special funding. Only when we have the money can we (do the job). Thirdly, we need to establish special institutions. It is the government's responsibility to improve the rescue system. The law has to be very specific. Otherwise, even if it's passed， it still can't protect women's rights.

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