European Institute for Gender Equality
European Institute for Gender Equality

Department of Probation and Parole Data Base (DPP)

Types of GBV

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Rape
  • Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking

Data on cases according to the Law Courts at the pre or post-sentencing stages, only those ones that require the services of the department

Purpose of data collection

  • Monitoring
  • Inform/evaluate policy
  • Plan capacity
  • Accountability

Data available on

Victim

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants
Other: 

Location of incident.

Relationship with perpetrator

Yes
Type of relationship: 

Husband/wife, intimate partner, family relation, stranger, other (ex: neighbour, colleagues)

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

No

Perpetrator

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants
Other: 

Locality, Country of Origin, Date of Birth, Referral Type: Law Court or Parole Board, the offence, Date of Issuing of the Order, Date of Termination of the Order, name of Probation Officer supervising the case, Reference Number.

Relationship with victim

No
Additional information: 

This means that this kind of information is not recorded by this data source.

Re-offending

Yes

Witness

Background information

No information collected on Background information

Relationship with victim/perpetrator

No

Incident description by witness

No

Children witnessing IPV incident

No information available

Incident

Code system used

  • No codes used

Description of incident

  • Date/time
  • Harm/injuries
  • Location
  • Type of violence
Other: 

Case files.

Protection order

No information available

Civil justice data

No information available

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

No information collected on Defendant pleas/verdicts

Average time case through criminal justice system

No

Outcomes

Perpetrator

N. of cases resulting in arrest

No

Charged with more than one offense

No

List of offenses

No

Victim

Death as result of incident

No

Data on the referrals made to Probation Services, namely by the Law Court and the Parole Board.

Characteristics

Storage System

  • In paper form
  • Electronically (single files)
  • Electronically (database)

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Quality assurance process

This data source is used for processes across all levels of the department. It is also used to address third party requests made by the National Statistics Office, Parliamentary Questions and Annual Reports. Moreover, such data is also used when working with other stakeholders such as the Ministry and the Judiciary.

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

Timeliness

Immediately

Additional information: 

As soon as the case is referred it is inputted in the system.

Current developments

Developments are ongoing and are in line with changes in policy and legislation and service provision.

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
NSO, Parliamentary Questions, Ministry, Judiciary
Used by third parties: 
Yes (partly)
Additional information: 

Depending on requests.

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender
Other: 

Courts (cases are referred in writing by the Court)

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
Department of Probation and Parole, Home Affairs
Sector:
Police
Geographical area: 
National