Database on the Prosecution Process of VAW Incidents (No official name)
Data available on
Perpetrator
Background information
- Age
- Sex
- Nationality
- ID
- Name
- Ethnicity
- Marital status
- Dependants
Education; a member of armed forces and police (yes/no, rank); political status of the sentenced (representative, foreign administrative officer, businessman etc.)
Relationship with victim
This means that it is recorded whether there exists a previous relationship between victim and offender (e.g. family, intimate partner) or not (stranger).
Re-offending
Witness
This administrative data source does not collect information on Witness
Incident
Code system used
- Criminal justice
Corresponds to the criminal offences laid down in the Criminal Code
Description of incident
- Date/time
- Harm/injuries
- Location
- Type of violence
Date and location of incident based on the prosecutor's office/court in charge.
Protection order
Civil justice data
Incident respond resources
No information collected on Incident respond resources
Data on the length of the ban on activity; data on the length of the ban on residence; data on the length of the ban on entry; data on the length of expatriation
Prosecution process
Stages of prosecution process
- Withdrawals of complaints
- Withdrawals of prosecution support
- N. of cases reported for each incident
- N. of cases initiated for each type of incident
- N. of cases referred to court
- Types of offense(s)
Defendant pleas/verdicts
- Guilty pleas
- Guilty verdicts
Average time case through criminal justice system
Outcomes
Perpetrator
N. of cases resulting in arrest
Charged with more than one offense
List of offenses
Victim
Death as result of incident
Characteristics
Storage System
- In paper form
- Electronically (single files)
- Electronically (database)
Database CSLAV (Central Statistical Lists and Statements), central system for statistics.
Frequency of updating
Quality assurance process
The informant: "District courts are supervised by regional courts, which check the statistics and make sure that they are correct. So, we have a control system in place. It is based on our Instruction on Data Recording and Statistical Services. It is even more strict with respect to prosecutors because there is one more level of control. They do it very diligently. It is somewhat looser when it comes to the courts because the hierarchy is not such. Regional courts control district courts, but the highest court keeps its own records."
Comparability
- Geographical
- Over time
- None
Timeliness
Timely
Current developments
To include Antidiscrimination Act in the data collection, but at the same time, the informant indicated that there are other urgent priorities. There are no plans to improve the quality of the administrative data.
Relation with third parties
While the Czech Statistical Office publishes some of the statistics based on the data from the Ministry of Justice, the statistical potential of this administrative data source is used only very partially. There is much more data which remains unused.
Reporter
- Victim
- Witness
- Offender
Prosecutor's Offices; Courts
