Electronic Court Record Information System database (ECRIS)
Data available on
Perpetrator
Background information
- Age
- Sex
- Nationality
- ID
- Name
- Ethnicity
- Marital status
- Dependants
Employment and financial status, education, children if relevant, if minor/adult
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
Background information
No information collected on Background information
Relationship with victim/perpetrator
Incident description by witness
Children witnessing IPV incident
Incident
Code system used
- Criminal justice
Depending on the severity of violent acts intimate Partner Violence can be criminalized under the provisions of Chapter I of the Criminal Code (crimes against person) and will be coded respectively. According to the Criminal Law Classification as follows Title I, Chapter I art 180 “battery and other violence” Title I Chapter I art.181 “ assault” Title I Chapter I art.182 “Severe Assault” Title I Chapter I, art. 183 “ battery or assault resulting in death "Title I, Chapter III, art. 197 “rape "Title I, Chapter III, art 203 “sexual harassment”.
Description of incident
- Date/time
- Harm/injuries
- Location
- Type of violence
Date and location of incident, victim's injuries (physical, sexual or labour abuse).
Protection order
Civil justice data
Incident respond resources
No information collected on Incident respond resources
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
Basically it records the final solution of the case.
Average time case through criminal justice system
Outcomes
Perpetrator
N. of cases resulting in arrest
Charged with more than one offense
List of offenses
Bail/remand
Whether the trial takes place with the defended in custody or in liberty.
Prisons
Prison sentence in months; location for the prison sentence
Other
Average time also recorded for local courts one the introduction of ECRIS; number of court dates before a final decision; final court sentence. In some cases of minors who are defendants in criminal cases reports by the probation division of Ministry of Justice are mandatory; for adults evaluation reports are also requested by the Ministry of Justice to determine if prison sentences are opportune; the court records note the presence/absence of probation reports; also at the final sentence if probation is instituted.
Victim
Death as result of incident
Characteristics
Storage System
- In paper form
- Electronically (single files)
- Electronically (database)
Frequency of updating
Twice a year. Annually
Quality assurance process
No information available
Comparability
- Geographical
- Over time
- None
Data is comparable over time and will remain so; only that the amount of data recorded will be increase and will contain more details; also more info on number of court dates for final sentence and number of days will be recorded; the main tracking instrument will remain the file identification number ( a personalized/single no) traceable across courts;
Timeliness
immediately
Data is recorded on an on-going basis but statistical reports can only be generated for previous 6 months; court files are recorded on a daily basis with delays of over a month in different courts.
Current developments
No plans.
Relation with third parties
Data regarding number of sentences on certain crimes - to provide criminality reports;
Reporter
- Victim
- Witness
- Offender
Courts (clerks)