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perpetrators. Required changes in their systems of data collection are
expensive and have found difficulties in being implemented. However this is
absolutely important as the current national legislation is not adequate to
detect violence in intimate partner relationship and in the family context. Data
from the police sector and from the justice section should also keep the
information on each victim linked to the information on the related
perpetrator, making possible a follow-up of the victims in the reporting and
judicial itinerary. Further developments are also needed to follow the judicial
proceedings and to know, for example, the number of acquitted perpetrators
and not only the persons convicted or imprisoned.
Data collection on women utilizing shelters, crisis centre and VAW services
(NGOs) has been harmonized, i.e. based on the same variables across all
shelters, and is planned to be systematically repeated, at least annually.
However the pathways out of violence would be known only with a continuous
flow of data, keeping together information on the same woman who may
contact more than one shelter, several services, emergency services, hospital
and police and justice authorities.
Data from hospitals, emergency and health or social public services are
currently not very useful because it is not recorded if the woman is a victim of
a gender based crime.
According to the measures adopted by the task force on VAW, hospitals
and emergency departments will adapt some new procedures in order to
recognize this kind of victims, asking them the victim-perpetrator relationship.
Monitoring VAW includes also observing the evolution of social relations
between men and women and the impact of gender stereotypes. It is
important to understand how men and women behave in society, for example
at school, at work, in the family, at different ages. It is also important to
evaluate the undertaken policies, in terms of prevention campaigns and raising
awareness, for instance about a proper gender relationship in the education
system.
Recent studies on social investment (SROI-Social Return on Investment)
have highlighted the importance of prevention and raising awareness to stop
the cycle of violence, namely to disrupt the vicious circle of the
intergenerational transmission of violence, a mechanism on which the
intervention has hitherto been modest.
Read and analysed as a whole, the integrated system on WAV will provide
the governing bodies and all public and private actors involved an accurate
and complete picture of the phenomenon under several aspects. When
finished and completely operating, the system will be an essential tool for
evaluating the effectiveness of policies undertaken to protect and support the
victim and to prevent the phenomenon, in line with the principles of the
Istanbul Convention.

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