European Institute for Gender Equality
European Institute for Gender Equality

Recording and Statistical System of Criminality

Types of GBV

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

Purpose of data collection

  • Monitoring
  • Inform/evaluate policy
  • Plan capacity
Other purpose: 

Statistics. Human resourses planning to face criminality.

Data available on

Victim

Background information

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

Immigration status, employment if a woman is pregnant, if children are victims, their age

Relationship with perpetrator

Yes
Type of relationship: 

Spouse, intimate partner, parent, child, brother, sister, grand parent, grand child, foster parent, nursing parent, foster or nursing child

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

No information available

Perpetrator

Background information

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

Educational attainment, employment, immigration status, place of birth

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

Children witnessing IPV incident

No information available

Incident

Code system used

  • Police

Description of incident

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

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

Yes

Outcomes

Perpetrator

N. of cases resulting in arrest

Yes

Charged with more than one offense

Yes

Other

Only for the stage of prosecution.

Victim

Death as result of incident

Yes

Characteristics

Storage System

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

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

The data input is provided in two steps - first, police officers fill out questionnaires in paper, second, statistical units insert them in the electronic database. Statistical units are provided not only with statistical sheet but also with main documentation of the case.

Quality assurance process

No information available

Comparability

No information available

Timeliness

Immediately

Additional information: 

The incident is immediately recorded by police officers and put in the database in few days.

Current developments

No information available

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
Upon request
Used by third parties: 
Yes (all of it)

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
Police
Sector:
Police
Geographical area: 
National