4533.0 - Directory of Family and Domestic Violence Statistics, 2013  
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Purpose
Description
Definition of family and domestic violence
Relationship to Defining the data challenge for family, domestic and sexual violence (cat. no. 4529.0)
Family and domestic violence related content (data items collected)
Collection methodology
Scope / Target population
Coverage
Data availability / Dissemination
Publications
Collection history
Other directory data sources held by this agency

QUEENSLAND POLICE RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT EXCHANGE (QPRIME)

DASHBOARD METADATA

Collection typeGeographic coverageFrequencyData availability
  • Administrative by-product
  • Queensland
  • LGA
  • SLA
  • Annual
  • Detailed publication / report publicly available
  • Agency annual report
  • Customised data - free upon request 1
[1] May be subject to release conditions

DETAILED METADATA

Contact details

Data custodianQueensland Police
Contact Manager, Statistical Services
AddressPolice Services, GPO Box 1440, Brisbane, QLD, 4001
Telephone07 3364 6464
Facsimile n/a
Emailstatisticalservices@police.qld.gov.au
Internethttp://www.police.qld.gov.au
Source linkhttp://www.police.qld.gov.au/services/reportsPublications/
PURPOSE

Queensland Police Records and Information Management Exchange (QPRIME) captures administrative and intelligence information to support policing activities and Information Management.

DESCRIPTION

Queensland Police Records and Information Management Exchange (QPRIME) records official police crime reports. These include road crash, crime (reported crime victims, reported crime offenders, prosecutions of offenders and offender criminal histories), missing persons and domestic violence applications/orders.

DEFINITION OF FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Family and domestic violence is defined by the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act 2012. Behaviours include threatened or actual wilful injury, wilful damage to the other person’s property (including pets), intimidation or harassment of the other person and indecent behaviour towards the other person without consent, where the two parties are in a domestic relationship. Behaviours do not need to be committed directly by the person committing the Domestic Violence.

Under Queensland law, a “domestic relationship” is a spousal relationship; an intimate personal relationship; a family relationship; or an informal care relationship. In QPRIME, a domestic relationship is indicated by:
  • the use of a specific family and domestic violence flag;
  • a relationship field; or
  • the presence of domestic violence protection orders and breach of domestic violence protection orders.

Aspects of family and domestic violence captured in the data are:
  • physical abuse;
  • sexual abuse;
  • psychological / emotional abuse;
  • verbal abuse;
  • property damage; and
  • harassment and stalking

RELATIONSHIP TO DEFINING THE DATA CHALLENGE FOR FAMILY, DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE (cat. no. 4529.0)

The summary table below is designed to indicate the amount of information available for each of the six elements outlined in Defining the Data Challenge for Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence, 2013 (cat. no. 4529.0). This is a subjective assessment made by the ABS about the data collected and is not an indication of data quality.

Conceptual Framework
Amount of Information Available
Element/Sub–element
Some
Detailed
Context
Environmental factors
Psycho-social factors
Risk
Community prevalence
Community incidence
Incident/event
Responses
Formal responses
Informal responses
Impacts/Outcomes
Programs, Research & Evaluation
FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RELATED CONTENT (data items collected)

The following tables provide a detailed analysis of the availability of specified data elements in the data source. The data items have been grouped into four counting units:
1. Context;
2. Person;
3. Incident/Event; and
4. Transaction.

Tables are absent from the entry in cases where the data source contains no data items which relate to the particular counting unit/s.

Context
Please note: This data source does not contain any data items relevant to this counting unit. Person

Data Items
Victim
Perpetrator
Secondary
Residential location
Age
Sex
Indigenous status
Disability status
Country of birth
Language spoken
Employment status
1
1
1
Education
Income
Socio-economic status
Mental illness
Other
[1] Unsuitable for statistical purposes due to method of recording Incident/event

Data Items
Available
Location of incident/event
Residential location
Workplace
Educational institution
Public Place
Other Location
Relationship between parties
Current partner
Previous partner
Boyfriend/girlfriend/date
Parent
Child
Sibling
Other relatives
Other member of household
Personal/financial dependency
Other
1
Other Characteristics
Weapon used
Type of weapon
Physical injury sustained
Type of injury sustained
Pregnancy
Alcohol/substance use
Prior history of victimisation/offending
Change to routine
Time off work/economic costs
Perceptions of behaviour as criminal
Other
[1] Some free text recording of relationship between secondary and primary victims.Transaction

Data Items
Available
Detection
Reported to police
Reasons not reported to police
Satisfaction with police response
Application for violence order
Violence order issued
Offender charged
Offender went to court
Offender sentence type
Child protection involvement
Other: (breach of domestic violence order; police service boundaries)
Formal support
Services used/referral to services
1
Medical treatment/type
Counselling
Legal
Financial
Housing/accommodation
Crisis
Other
Informal Support
Family/friends
Minister/priest
Telephone service
Other
[1] Name of government agency referred to is recorded.COLLECTION METHODOLOGY

After becoming aware of an offence the reporting officer contacts the Information and Communications Technology Command (ICT) by telephone as soon as practicable. A twenty-four hour data entry service exists within ICT to facilitate this process. The offence is then recorded in QPRIME, classified and counted by the data entry staff. This process provides the benefits of reducing police officers’ administrative workloads as well as providing an accurate and immediate computerised record of crimes.

SCOPE / TARGET POPULATION

Victims of reported crime, offenders, missing persons and persons involved in domestic violence incidents/applications/orders.

COVERAGE

n/a

DATA AVAILABILITY / DISSEMINATION

Data is routinely published in Queensland Police Annual Reports and the Queensland Police Statistical Review. Access to additional data may be available free upon request, subject to security and privacy considerations.

Information about how to apply for an external Research Request is in http://www.police.qld.gov.au/services/research/
Information about right of Information can be found in http://www.police.qld.gov.au/rti/published/

PUBLICATIONS

Queensland Police Reports and Publications

COLLECTION HISTORY

Collection commenced: June 2007

Break in series: No. Note that the date that various data items commenced will vary depending on the introduction of various legislation.

Other details: Crime reports recorded between December 1994 and June 2007 have been converted from Crime Recording Information System for Police (CRISP) to QPRIME. Prior to December 1994 crime reports were derived from data entered into the crime statistics database maintained by the Statistics Section of the former Information Management Bureau (and its precursors).

OTHER DIRECTORY DATA SOURCES HELD BY THIS AGENCY
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