4533.0 - Directory of Family and Domestic Violence Statistics, 2011
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 22/11/2011
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CRIMCASE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
DETAILED METADATA Contact Data custodian: Courts Administration Authority, South Australia Contact: Business & Financial Services Branch Address: Level 16, Education Centre, 31 Flinders St, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Telephone: 08 8226 1288 Facsimile: 08 8226 0127 Email: FOI@courts.sa.gov.au Internet: http://www.courts.sa.gov.au Publications http://www.courts.sa.gov.au/caa/index.html Purpose To record information on criminal charges. Description The CRIMCASE system is used to record details of criminal matters lodged in South Australian courts. The system also records outcomes of criminal hearings. Collection Type Administrative by-product Family and Domestic Violence related content (data items collected)
Definition of Family and Domestic Violence The Domestic Violence Act 1994 defines the following grounds for making a domestic violence restraining order:
(b) if the defendant causes damage to property of a member of the defendant's family; or (c) if on two or more separate occasions—
(ii) the defendant loiters outside the place of residence of a family member or some other place frequented by a family member; or (iii) the defendant enters or interferes with property occupied by, or in the possession of, a family member; or (iv) the defendant—
(B) publishes or transmits offensive material by means of the internet or some other form of electronic communication in such a way that the offensive material will be found by, or brought to the attention of, a family member; or (v) the defendant keeps a family member under surveillance; or (vi) the defendant engages in other conduct, A family member in relation to a defendant is defined as including a spouse or former spouse of the defendant; a domestic partner or former domestic partner of the defendant; a child of whom the defendant, their spouse, former spouse, domestic partner of former domestic partner has custody; or a child who normally or regularly resides with the defendant, their spouse, former spouse, domestic partner of former domestic partner. Aspects of FDV captured in the data are:
Relationship to Conceptual Framework for Family and Domestic Violence (Cat. No. 4529.0)
Collection methodology Information is received electronically from Police Prosecutions or entered manually for lodgements received from the Director of Public Prosecutions and private parties. Scope / target population People charged with a criminal offence in South Australia. Coverage n/a Geographic coverage and disaggregation South Australia. Full address of offender recorded. Data available for: South Australia Frequency / Timing Updated continually Data published annually Collection history Collection commenced: 1990 Breaks in series: no Other details: n/a Data availability / Dissemination Number of defendants, files and charges heard in specialist Family Violence Courts is published in the Courts Administration Authority Annual Report. Other data may be available via Freedom of Information or approval through the Court. Contact the Courts Administration Authority for further information on access. Other data sources held by this agency n/a Has this data source changed? Contact the ABS to report updates or corrections to the information above.
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