Administrative data sources on GBV in
Administrative data sources
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Administrative data sourceSlovakiaViolence, Justice
Štatistická evidencia súdnictva
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Administrative data sourceSlovakiaViolence, Justice
Statistical products
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Statistical productSlovakiaViolence
Štatistická ročenka Ministerstva spravodlivosti SR
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Statistical productSlovakiaViolence
Štatistická ročenka o činnosti prokuratúry Slovenskej republiky
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Legal Definitions
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SlovakiaViolence, JusticeIntimate Partner Violence
Whoever is cruel to (abusing) a close person or a person in his custody or care, causing physical or psychological suffering to such person mainly by a) beating, kicking, punching, causing injuries and burns of any kind, humiliating, contemptuous treatment, stalking, making threats, exciting fear or stress, forcing into isolation, emotional blackmailing or any other behaviour jeopardizing the person’s physical or psychological health or limiting the person’s safety, b) groundless denying of food, rest or sleep, or denying of necessary personal care, clothing, hygiene, health care, housing, upbringing or education, c) forcing the person to beg or to perform activities requiring excessive physical or psychological exhaustion regarding the age or health condition of the person, or to perform activities that may harm the person’s health, d) exposure to substances that may harmful the person’s health, or e) unjustified preventing of access to property that the person has a right to use shall be sentenced for 3 up to 8 years of imprisonment.
ObservationsAn offender shall be sentenced for 7 up to 15 years if by committing an offence under subsection (1) a) he/she caused a serious harm to health or death, b) because of peculiar inducement, c) although he/she has been sentenced for such an offence in the part twenty four months or has been sentenced for such an offence and released on parole, d) if he/she has continued committing such an offence for a longer time, in violent manner, threatens with violence or other serious injury, or abuses emergency situation or the dependence of another person. (3) An offender shall be sentenced for 15 up to 25 years of imprisonment, or an exceptional sentence, if by committing an offence under subsection (1) and he/she caused a serious harm to health or death of several persons.
Legal Source:Criminal Code, Articled 208 (relates to domestic violence and also covers intimate partner violence)
Legal provisions on protection orders:Expelling perpetrator from a residence for 48 hours (Act no. 171/1993 Coll. on Police Force, Article 27a)
Temporary eviction of a perpetrator from a residence (Act no. 99/1963 Coll. Code of Civil Procedure as amended, Article 76 (1)g)
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SlovakiaViolence, JusticeRape
Rape is committed by a person who forced a woman to engage in sexual intercourse (coitus) by using violence or threat of immediate violence, or who for such an act abuses a woman’s vulnerable situation.
Legal Source:Criminal Code, Article 199
Legal provisions on protection orders:Protection order of not entering the residence of a person if he/she is suspected to be violent against this person (Code of Civil Procedure, Article 76(1)g)
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SlovakiaViolence, JusticeSexual Assault (excl. rape)
Slovakia uses the term "sexual violence", which is committed by a person who using violence forces another person to oral sex, anal sex or other sexual activities or who in order to commit such crime abuses another person’s vulnerability.
Legal Source:Criminal Code, Article 200
Legal provisions on protection orders:Protection order of not entering the residence of a person he/she is suspected to be violent against (Code of Civil Procedure, Article 76 (1)g)
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SlovakiaViolence, JusticeSexual Harassment
Verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is aimed at or can cause a violation of the dignity of a person and creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.
Legal Source:Act no. 365/2004 Coll. on Equal Treatment in Certain Areas and Protection against Discrimination (Antidiscrimination Act)
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SlovakiaViolence, JusticeStalking
In Slovakia, "dangerous pursuit" is committed by a person who continually pursues another person in a way evoking danger to life or health to that person, to life or health to a person’s close persons, or worsens his/her quality of life by threats of harm to health or death to a person or person’s close person, by pursuing a person, by contacting a person by a third person in writing or electronically against this person’s will, by exploiting this person’s personal data in order to personally or otherwise contact a person, or otherwise limits this person’s usual way of life.
Legal Source:Criminal Code, Article 199
Literature and legislation
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SlovakiaHealth, Violence
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SlovakiaHealth, Violence
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SlovakiaHealth, Violence
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