Data collection and analysis around domestic and sexual violence

Published: Monday, April 16, 2018

NWCI expressed concern over reports that the Gardai have been overstating the number of sex crimes reported by as much as 26% in some years.

Orla O’Connor, Director of NWCI said,

“The figures showing how Gardai have been overstating the number of sex crimes reported by as much as 26% in some years are just the latest in a long line of headlines which show that data collection and analysis around domestic and sexual violence is at crisis point in Ireland. NWCI has huge concerns that the number of women reporting rape, which was already thought to be as low as 10%, is even lower than previously believed. Our criminal justice system is failing to support women, and failing to hold perpetrators to account, because we do not collect or analyse data in an effective manner."

Read our full press release here.