SDG 16.3.1 Proportion of Victims of Violence in the Previous 12 Months who Reported their Victimisation to Competent Authorities or Other Officially Recognised Conflict Resolution Mechanisms
SDG 16.3.2 Unsentenced Detainees as a Proportion of Overall Prison Population
SDG 16.3.3 Proportion of the Population who have Experienced a Dispute in the past two years and who Accessed a Formal or Informal Dispute Resolution Mechanism
SDG 16.3.1 Proportion of victims of violence in the previous 12 months who reported their victimisation to competent authorities or other officially recognised conflict resolution mechanisms is published by the CSO, Crime Statistics.
The CSO publishes data on Crime and Victimisation. The most recent report was Crime and Victimisation 2019 report. See chapter on Personal Crime.
About two in five (39%) people aged 18 and over who said that they had been a victim of personal crime in the 12 months before the interview had reported some of all of the incidents to An Garda Síochána. There was considerable variation in the level of reporting by different types of crime – people were most inclined to report incidents of violent thefts (67%) and least likely to report fraud incidents (19%) to An Garda Síochána. See Table 5.1.
Of those who reported being a victim of personal crime but said that they did not report all crimes to An Garda Síochána, the most common reason cited for not reporting was that the incident was not serious enough or that they had not suffered any loss (35% of victims who did not report). Other common reasons cited were that the victim said that they had solved it themselves (24%) or that they did not believe that An Garda Síochána could do anything about it (22%). See Table 5.2 and Figure 5.2.
Reason for not Reporting Some or All Incidents to An Garda Siochana % | |
Not Serious Enough/No Loss | 35 |
Solved It Myself (Knew the Perpetrator/Thief) | 24 |
Believed Gardai Could do Nothing | 22 |
Other Reasons | 19 |
Believed Gardai Wouldnt do Anything | 16 |
Did Not Wish to Involve the Gardai | 10 |
Feared Reprisal | 2 |
People who stated that they had been a victim of personal crime were asked whether they believed the incident took place because of any particular characteristics about themselves, such as age, gender, race etc. 93% of victims did not identify any such characteristics which they felt had motivated the crime. 4% of victims believed the crime was motivated by race, religion or ethnicity, while 3% stated that they felt the crime was motivated by gender and 2% said they felt that age had been a motivating factor.
Discrimination was felt to be a motivating characteristic by 7% of victims. See Table 5.3.
SDG 16.3.2 Unsentenced Detainees as a proportion of overall prison population is published by the Irish Prison Service.
The Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2021, gives a snapshot of the prison population on 30th November 2021. Out of the total prison population of 3,806 on this date, 2,956 persons were ‘under sentence’. The remaining 846 persons were ‘remand/trial’ prisoners, accounting for 22.2% of prisoners.
The corresponding data for 2020 shows that there was a total prison population of 3,810, of which 3,059 were ‘under sentence’. The remaining 738 persons were ‘remand/trial’ prisoners, accounting for 19.4% of prisoners. See Table 5.4 and Figure 5.2.
Detailed information is available in the Annual Reports - Irish Prison Service which is updated annually using a snapshot date of the 30th November. Monthly Information is also available.
2021 | ||||||
Immigration/Extradition Issues | 4 | |||||
Under Sentence | 2956 | |||||
Remand/Trial | 846 |
SDG 16.3.3 Proportion of the population who have experienced a dispute in the past two years and who accessed a formal or informal dispute resolution mechanism, by type of mechanism - no data is available at national level.
The UN SDG Indicators Database provides the following information on SDG 16.3.3 metadata.
The target for this indicator is Target 16.3 which is to:
"Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all".
Number of persons who experienced a dispute during the past two years who accessed a formal or informal dispute resolution mechanism, as a percentage of all those who experienced a dispute in the past two years, by type of mechanism.
A dispute can be understood as a justiciable problem between individuals or between individual(s) and an entity. Justiciable problems can be seen as the ones giving rise to legal issues, whether or not the problems are perceived as being “legal” by those who face them, and whether or not any legal action was taken as a result of the problem.
Categories of disputes can vary between countries depending on social, economic, political, legal, institutional and cultural factors. There are, however, a number of categories that have broad applicability across countries, such as problems or disputes related to:
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