Indicator 13: Annual number of men (aged 18 and over) sentenced for intimate partner violence against women, held in prison or with a sanction involving a form of deprivation of liberty

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Indicator 13

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13. Indicator 13: Annual number of men

(aged 18 and over) sentenced for intimate

partner violence against women, held in

prison or with a sanction involving a form

of deprivation of liberty

(71) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/crim_just_esms.htm

(72) https://eige.europa.eu/publications/glossary-definit ions-rape-femicide-and-intimate-partner-violence

13.1. Statistical unit

The statistical unit for indicator 13 is the num-

ber of sentenced (or convicted) persons, i.e.

‘persons found guilty by any legal body author-

ised to pronounce a conviction under national

criminal law, whether or not the conviction was

later upheld’ (71). While indicator 12 measures

the number of sentenced men, indicator 13

species the sentence, i.e. prison or a form of

deprivation of libert y.

13.2. Type of oence

The oence covered by indicator 13 is intimate

partner violence, dened as any act of physical,

sexual, ps ychological or economic violence that

occurs between former or current spouses or

partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares

or has shared the same residence with the vic-

tim’ (72).

13.3. Reference area

Data and metadata for indicator 13 were col-

lected at the national level for 27 EU Member

States and the three devolved jurisdictions

which are the lawful authorities in the policy

area of law and order in the United Kingdom

(England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scot-

land).

Comparable data are available for:

• Spain

• Lithuania

• Slovakia

• United Kingdom-Scotland.

Non-comparable data are available for:

• Estonia

• Croatia

• Italy

• United Kingdom-England and Wales

• United Kingdom-Northern Ireland.

No data are available for:

• Belgium

• Bulgaria

• Czechia

• Denmark

• Germany

• Ireland

• Greece

• France

• Cyprus

• Latvia

• Luxembourg

• Hungary

• Malta

• Netherlands

• Austria

• Poland

• Portugal

• Romania

• Slovenia

• Finland