Sexual Offences
Violence Against Women Initiative Data Systems
RAPE CRISIS Data Systems
SUMMARY
Set up appropriate data collection and monitoring processes for the whole Rape Crisis movement in England and Wales.
INTERVENTIONS
At present there is no cohesive framework to standardise the way in which data is collected and managed. Individual groups collect and manage data in different ways with differing aims and objectives. Most Rape Crisis groups have to provide some data for their individual funders but individual funders require different data from the voluntary agencies that they fund. This project will allow all member groups to work together in data collection to provide accurate, detailed statistics.
The areas of analysis that we would look to standardise fall broadly within the categories of the Guidance for Agencies issued with the CRP. I.e. what range of services they use, how often, the relationship between the voluntary and statutory agencies that women use, the relationship between the women/girl and the perpetrator, repeat victimisation, how many report to the police, how and hwy women ‘drop out’ of the criminal justice process, how acquittal of perpetrator affects women etc. It is the intention to share through publishing the statistical information as widely as possible from the media to the police from policy makers at Government level and European and international organisations.
AGENCIES INVOLVED
All 50 Rape Crisis Groups in England and Wales.
Last update: June 2003