European Institute for Gender Equality
European Institute for Gender Equality

Electronic Incident Journal

Types of GBV

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

Purpose of data collection

  • Ensure victim protection from perpetrator
  • Inform/evaluate policy
Other purpose: 

To inform municipal policy.

Data available on

Victim

This administrative data source does not collect information on Victim

Perpetrator

Background information

No information collected on Background information

Relationship with victim

Yes
Additional information: 

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

No information available

Witness

Background information

No information collected on Background information

Relationship with victim/perpetrator

Yes

Incident description by witness

No information available

Children witnessing IPV incident

No information available

Incident

Code system used

No information available

Description of incident

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

Bodily injuries, violence against minor, rape, sexual assault, family conflict.

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

Yes

Victim

Death as result of incident

No information available

Characteristics

Storage System

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

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Quality assurance process

Journal is a subsystem of state's information systems/ Only trained staff can use it and get access to it. There are data on improving the system and linking it to other state's registries and data bases.

Comparability

No information available

Timeliness

No information available

Current developments

No information available

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
Municipality Police, State's Border Control, Corruption and Crime Prevention Office, State Fire and Rescue Service
Used by third parties: 
Yes (all of it)

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender

There is room for improvement. From the data recorded in the journal, it can be seen in how many cases a criminal process was initiated. In the majority of cases it was not started (excl. rape).

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
State Police
Sector:
Police
Geographical area: 
National