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of the judicial system. They allow describing the type of violence and how
often this has become acquainted with the law enforcement and the judicial
system, the number of convictions and the characteristics of the sentenced
persons. They also allow analysing the type and incidence of concomitant
offences, some characteristics relating to the context and dynamics of the
phenomenon and some information on the outcome of the proceedings.
In addition to the problem of the unreported episodes of violence, in Italy the
statistics of the justice sector are affected by the lack of information on the sex
of victims and the information regarding the victim-perpetrator relationship.
For this reason, data collected in the integrated system on VAW are those
related to some crimes, namely stalking, sexual assault, maltreatment in the
family, female genital mutilation, which can be considered crimes to majority
vocation of gender.
The prevention
The integrated system on VAW gives an overview of the awareness
campaigns supported by the Italian Regions and by the DEO and list the
actions carried out by the National Authorities to combat the VAW.
International experiences
Data and analyses provided by international organisations, United Nations
Offices, Agencies of the European Union, National Statistical Offices of the
European Union Member States are made available in this section.

4. Discussion and Conclusion
Good policies need regular, high quality, standardized, speaking data and
coordinated data, but these goals are not easily achieved. Regular data are
data periodically collected and updated in order to monitor the phenomenon;
high quality data are collected using a sound methodology according to the
specific sources; standardized data are comparable across countries and over
time; speaking data are meaningful data suitable to appropriately describe the
phenomenon, using core variables and indicators; coordinated data are
comprehensible and comprehensive data and are the results of the good
cooperation of the data providers. In this respect Italy, with ISTAT as
coordinator of the dedicated task force, is building up a very good framework
on VAW and the integrated system is among one of the achieved results. The
system is online since the 25th of November 2017
(https://www.istat.it/it/violenza-sulle-donne) and is progressively updated,
however a number of further steps needs to be done.
ISTAT interacts with the main stakeholders, but only a concrete willingness
to convert in statistical terms some information already available in the
computerized registers may lead to a correct definition of the violence against
women. Ministries of Justice and Interior were asked to collect the crucial
information which combine the sex of the victims and the relation with the

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