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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

POLICE REAL TIME ONLINE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (PROMIS), AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (2013 provider updates not received)

DASHBOARD METADATA

Collection type		Geographic coverage		Frequency		Data availability
Administrative by-product		Australian Capital Territory		Ad hoc		Not published - may be available on request 1

[1] May be subject to release conditions

DETAILED METADATA

Contact details

Data custodian	Australian Federal Police
Contact	Policy, Performance and Planning Section
Address	C/O Winchester Police Centre, PO Box 401, Canberra City, ACT, 2601
Telephone	02 6256 7777
Facsimile	n/a
Email	ACT-PPP-Statistics@afp.gov.au
Internet	http://www.police.act.gov.au
Source link	n/a

PURPOSE

Police Real Time Online Management Information System (PROMIS) is the Australian Federal Police administrative system used to record crime and police incidents.

DESCRIPTION

PROMIS is the primary corporate system for recording investigations and operational information.

DEFINITION OF FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Family violence can include criminal and non-criminal behaviours. A Family Violence tick box is used within PROMIS to identify if an incident is a family and domestic violence incident. To be considered a family and domestic violence incident, two elements must be present:

• a relevant family violence relationship which must include relevant person(s) which are defined in relation to a person (the original person). A relevant person means a domestic partner of the original person (but need not be an adult), or a relative of the original person (father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, stepfather, stepmother, father-in-law or mother-in-law; or son, daughter, grandson, granddaughter, stepson, stepdaughter, son-in-law or daughter-in-law; or brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, stepbrother, stepsister, brother-in-law or sister-in-law; or uncle, aunt, uncle-in-law or aunt-in-law; or nephew, niece or cousin); someone who would have been a relative, or a child of a domestic partner or former domestic partner of the original person, or a parent of a child of the original person, or someone who is or has been in a relevant relationship with the original person.
  A relevant relationship is defined as the extent to which each is personally dependent on the other, the extent to which each is financially dependent on the other, the length of the relationship, if there is or has been a sexual relationship, the extent to which each is involved in or knows about the other's personal life, the degree of mutual commitment to a shared life, the two people share care or support for children or other dependents; and
• a relevant family violence offence is threatened or committed. A list of the 58 family violence offences can be found at Schedule 1, Domestic Violence and Protection Orders Act 2008, and include but are not limited to murder, manslaughter, assault, driving offences, threats, forcible confinement, stalking, abduction, kidnapping, sexual assault, destroying or damaging property, arson, trespass on government premises, weapons offences, offensive behaviour and burglary

Police will also tick the Family Violence tick box when there has been a threat to commit an offence or where there is evidence of the use of power and control within the relationship.

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

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
Education
Income
Socio-economic status
Mental illness	1	1
Other

[1] Mental illness data available from September 2010. Cannot be linked specifically to the victim or the offender.Incident/event

Data Items	Available
Location of incident/event
Residential location
Workplace
Educational institution
Public Place
Other Location (Licensed premises/hotel/motel/shop)
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	1
Prior history of victimisation/offending
Change to routine
Time off work/economic costs
Perceptions of behaviour as criminal
Other

[1] Alcohol use data available from April 2010. Cannot be linked specifically to the victim or offender.Transaction

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

Information is entered into PROMIS by police officers. Each week the ACT Policing Intervention team search PROMIS using date and offence fields and read through the result text of about 380 jobs. From this approximately 60-70 family and domestic violence incidents are confirmed in Canberra each week. To be confirmed, a family and domestic violence incident must meet the definition of a relevant family violence relationship and a relevant family violence offence (see definition above). Currently the quality of the family violence tick box data item is not sufficient for this field to be used as an indicator of family and domestic violence incidents alone.

Other details about the incident may be stored in the case note but these details are not readily accessible (free text field) for statistical purposes. For example, the case note usually includes information on whether persons involved in the family violence incident were referred to support services by police, what type of support services and whether they were accepted or declined. Incident type, any offences attached to family violence incidents and offenders apprehended from incidents flagged as family violence related are accessible.

SCOPE / TARGET POPULATION

Victims and offenders.

COVERAGE

n/a

DATA AVAILABILITY / DISSEMINATION

Access to data may be available upon request.

PUBLICATIONS

Family and domestic violence data not routinely published.

COLLECTION HISTORY

Collection commenced: December 1998

Break in series: no

Other details: n/a

OTHER DIRECTORY DATA SOURCES HELD BY THIS AGENCY

n/a