2023 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Abstract: The attitude of the society towards children is conditioned by its cultural, social, economic, and political aspects. However, violence against children is a historical phenomenon present in every society, regardless of its level of development. The responsibility lies with the state and society to enable and ensure the equality of children's rights with other members of the community and to protect children from violence, considering the fact that children cannot do this by themselves. Destructiveness of the consequences of violence against children indicates the necessity of a systematic fight against this phenomenon. The subject of this paper is to present the etiology of violence against children, i.e., the causes influencing the influx of violence against children, as well as the phenomenological aspect of this occurrence. In this context, this paper aims to indicate the causes, characteristics, and manifestations of violence against children through the presentation of empirical knowledge. The forms of violence against children overlap, but it is necessary to distinguish them in order to create more effective measures of their prevention and suppression. Rezime: Odnos društva prema deci uslovljen je njegovim kulturološkim, socijalnim, ekonomskim i političkim aspektom. Međutim, nasilje nad decom predstavlja istorijsku pojavu koja je prisutna u svakom društvu, bez obzira na njegov stepen razvijenosti. Odgovornost je na državi i društvu da omogući i osigura jednakost prava deteta sa ostalim članovima zajednice i da zaštiti decu od nasilja, imajući u vidu da sama deca ne mogu to da učine. Destruktivnost posledica nasilja nad decom ukazuje na neophodnost sistemske borbe protiv ove pojave. Predmet rada jeste prikaz etiologije nasilja nad decom, odnosno uzroka koji utiču na pojavu nasilja nad decom, kao i fenomenološkog aspekta ove pojave. U tom kontekstu, cilj rada jeste da se kroz prikaz empirijskih saznanja ukaže na uzroke, karakteristike i pojavne oblike nasilja nad decom. Pojavni oblici nasilja nad decom se međusobno prepliću, ali ih je neophodno razlikovati kako bi se kreirale efikasnije mere prevencije i suzbijanja. Petrović, Maja Pravo - teorija i praksa vol. 40 br. 2 str. 89-100 eng https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:4489 doi:10.5937/ptp2302089P ISSN: 0352-3713 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Ključne reči: deca; nasilje; uzroci; fenomenologija Keywords: children; violence; causes; phenomenology application/pdf 346913 bytes Etiology and phenomenology of violence against children Etiologija i fenomenologija nasilja nad decom