Criminal Proceedings with known Author, concluded or pending before the Public Prosecutor's
Used as indicator
Data available on
Perpetrator
Background information
- Age
- Sex
- Nationality
- ID
- Name
- Ethnicity
- Marital status
- Dependants
Incident
Incident
Data on offenders and on victims (sex, age and nationality), but data on victims are not accurate not reliable as public prosecutor’s office describe the injured party that not always correspond to the victim. These data for the moment are not usable.
Criminal statistics on sexual violence
Criminal statistical data included
Sexual violence and abuse within the family (maltrattamenti in famiglia).
Characteristics
Reference period
Data arrive on a paper register quarterly with a very long delay. Data describe proceedings for which the penal action has initiated or has been closed.
Frequency of updating
Validation
Data arrive on a paper register and have to be elaborated, cleaned and interpreted. It is very difficult to use them as they are collected for administrative reasons and not to produce statistics. They require a very relevant cleaning process.
Compilation
Paper data are treated, interpreted an then integrated in a table
Quality assurance process
The migration process from paper to digital records is ongoing
Accuracy
No information available
Reliability
Limitations. Data arrive on a paper register and have to be elaborated, cleaned and interpreted. It is very difficult to use them as they are collected for administrative reasons and not to produce statistics. They require a very relevant cleaning process. Existing data include data both on offenders and on victims (sex, age and nationality), but data on victims are not accurate not reliable as public prosecutor’s office describe the injured party that not always correspond to the victim. These data for the moment are not usable
Timeliness
Limitations. Data describe proceedings for which the penal action has initiated or has been closed: this means that data describe old phenomena due to the lengths of penal actions in Italy
Comparability
- Geographical
- Over time
- None
Over time. Data are not comparable over time as there has been a wide modification in the methodology of investigation on reported crimes for which the penal action has been initiated. In addition, since 2006 some public prosecutors's offices have started a migration process between different information systems, with a consequent impact on the data.
Current developments
A part from the conclusion of the migration process of raw data from paper form to digital form, the expectation is that these data will feed police data base house Another expected development is the possibility to use data on victims