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

LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LEAP) VICTORIA POLICE (2013 provider updates not received)

DASHBOARD METADATA

Collection typeGeographic coverageFrequencyData availability
  • Administrative by-product
  • Victoria
  • LGA
  • Other
  • Annual
  • Detailed publication / report publicly available
  • Data cubes / spreadsheets publicly available
  • Agency annual report
[1] May be subject to release conditions

DETAILED METADATA

Contact details

Data custodianVictoria Police
Contact Corporate Statistics, Business Services Department
AddressVictoria Police Centre, 637 Flinders Street, Docklands, VIC 3008
Telephone03 9247 6045
Facsimile 03 9247 6045
EmailCORPORATESTATISTICS-REQUESTS-MGR@police.vic.gov.au
Internethttp://www.police.vic.gov.au
Source linkhttp://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?a=internetBridgingPage&Media_ID=72311
PURPOSE

To record information about criminal incidents reported to police for use in police crime management.

DESCRIPTION

The Law Enforcement Assistance Program (LEAP) online database is fully relational and stores information about all crimes bought to the notice of police as well as family incidents and missing persons. It also includes details on locations and persons involved.

DEFINITION OF FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Family violence is defined in the Victoria Police Code of Practice for Investigation of Family Violence in accordance with the Family Violence Protection Act (2008). Family violence is defined as any behaviour, whether a criminal offence or not, that in any way controls or dominates a family member and causes them to feel fear for their own, or other family members’ safety or well-being. It includes violent, threatening, coercive or controlling behaviour that occurs in current or former family, domestic or intimate relationships.

Family means any family or family-like relationship, including current and former intimate partners, relatives, same-sex partners and carers.

Data prior to 2008 reflects the Crimes (Family Violence) Act 1987, under which Victoria Police were required to complete a family incident report if officers attended any form of conflict between related parties as defined by the Act.

Aspects of family and domestic violence captured in the data are:
  • physical abuse;
  • sexual abuse;
  • psychological / emotional abuse;
  • verbal abuse;
  • economic abuse;
  • social 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

Data Items
Victim
Perpetrator
Secondary
Community perceptions
Neighbourhood problems
Feelings of safety/fear
Social connectedness/networks
Other
Person

Data Items
Victim
Perpetrator
Secondary
Residential location
Age
Sex
Indigenous status
Disability status
Country of birth
Language spoken
Employment status
Education
Income
Socio-economic status
Mental illness
1
1
Other
1. Health information is recorded as part of the State-wide Family Violence Risk Assessment and Risk Management Framework's risk and vulnerability indicators.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
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
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 (Family violence safety notice/civil action taken/family violence incident reports)
Formal support
Services used/referral to services
Medical treatment/type
Counselling
Legal
Financial
Housing/accommodation
Crisis
Other
Informal Support
Family/friends
Minister/priest
Telephone service
Other
COLLECTION METHODOLOGY

LEAP is a dynamic case management and data storage database designed primarily for operational policing purposes. Victoria Police update existing records with new information as it becomes available, and revise records when investigation identifies additional information. The Central Data Entry Bureau of Victoria Police also amends records when quality control checks identify inaccurate or incomplete information.

Only the most serious offence which best describes a distinct course of criminal conduct is recorded in official crime statistics, even though an offender may be charged with other offences resulting from the one incident.

Police officers are required to complete a family violence report when they attend a family violence incident. Since 1 September 2004 police officers are also required to complete a family violence risk assessment report and these are available on LEAP from 9 December 2005.

SCOPE / TARGET POPULATION

Victims of reported crime. Offenders, Missing persons, Persons involved in family incidents.

COVERAGE

Only those offences which become known to police and for which a crime report has been completed are included in the statistics.

DATA AVAILABILITY / DISSEMINATION

Data are published regularly on the Victoria police website and in annual reports. Data are also provided to the Victorian Family Violence Database.

Additional data may be available on request, excluding current financial year data.

PUBLICATIONS

Victoria Police Crime Statistics

COLLECTION HISTORY

Collection commenced: 9 December 2005

Break in series: no

Other details: no

OTHER DIRECTORY DATA SOURCES HELD BY THIS AGENCY

n/a