European Institute for Gender Equality
European Institute for Gender Equality

Prosecution Offices Computerized System (Patricia)

Types of GBV

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

Purpose of data collection

  • Monitoring
  • Plan capacity
Other purpose: 

Part of prosecutors' supervision system.

Data available on

Victim

Background information

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

Relationship with perpetrator

Yes
Type of relationship: 

The system uses the wording of the penal code: "persons with close relations"

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

No information available

Perpetrator

Background information

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

Re-offending (only if condemned), previous protection orders, employment, educational attainment, motive of a crime, addiction

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

No

Incident description by witness

No information available

Children witnessing IPV incident

No information available

Incident

Code system used

  • Criminal justice

Description of incident

No information collected on Description of incident

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

  • Guilty pleas
  • Guilty verdicts

Average time case through criminal justice system

No

Outcomes

Perpetrator

N. of cases resulting in arrest

Yes

Charged with more than one offense

Yes

List of offenses

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

As the data input is part of electronic filing, system they are considered reliable. Nevertheless, not all data is required to be filled in (for example, in case of victim, only name is mandatory).

Comparability

No information available

Timeliness

immediately

Additional information: 

Data are filled in on an on-going basis, if any change happens in particular case, they are filled in immediately.

Current developments

No information available

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
Upon request
Used by third parties: 
Yes (partly)
Additional information: 

Statistics on sentencing for each article of Penal Code are available, gender and age group of an offender and whether the crime was committed under influence of drugs or alcohol.

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender
Other: 

Health professional (victim and health professional are the only options given to record in the database)

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
Public Prosecutor
Sector:
Justice
Geographical area: 
National