European Institute for Gender Equality
European Institute for Gender Equality

Statistical Evidence of Judiciary

Types of GBV

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

Purpose of data collection

  • Inform/evaluate policy
  • Contribute to other organisation database
Other purpose: 

To inform policy.

Data available on

Victim

This administrative data source does not collect information on Victim

Perpetrator

Background information

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

Educational attainment, social group (type of employment - unemployed, self-employed, employed in agriculture, worker, manager, student, pensioner, police, army, etc.)

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

Yes

Witness

This administrative data source does not collect information on Witness

Incident

Code system used

  • Criminal justice

Description of incident

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

Motive of a crime, form 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

  • Guilty pleas
  • Guilty verdicts

Average time case through criminal justice system

Yes

Outcomes

Perpetrator

N. of cases resulting in arrest

No

Charged with more than one offense

Yes

List of offenses

Yes

Victim

Death as result of incident

Yes

Characteristics

Storage System

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

Frequency of updating

Monthly

Quality assurance process

Data are collected by judges or other court officials of the first instance and than delivered in paper to courts of second instance were they are put in the database. No quality control is provided.

Comparability

No information available

Timeliness

No information available

Current developments

From 2014 onwards, all statistical data will be provided only in electronic form.

Relation with third parties

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

Statistics according to articles of the Penal Code for selected articles are published (including violence on intimate partner - offender statistics are disaggregated by gender, age category and region, statistics on number of condemned offenders, number of incidents and penalties are available).

Reporter

No information available

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
Ministry of Justice
Sector:
Justice
Geographical area: 
National