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Tue, 31 May, 2016 12:02:41 AM
FTimes Report, May 31
 
Victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence by sex in 2010 to 2015. Source: Statistics on offences and coercive measures 2015, Statistics Finland.
There were 8,800 victims in domestic violence offences reported to the authorities in 2015, which is 6.7 per cent more than in the previous year, according to Statistics Finland's data.
 
Of victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence, 67.9 per cent were women. However, good one-half of aggravated assaults and attempted homicides were directed at men.
 
Among suspects of domestic violence and intimate partner violence, 77.8 per cent were men. One-quarter of the victims were underage, the statistics show.
 
Of domestic violence and intimate partner violence recorded in 2015, 40.7 per cent was violence between married or cohabiting couples.
 
The share is nearly three percentage points lower than in 2014.
 
Close on one-fifth of domestic violence and intimate partner violence took place between former married or cohabiting couples.
 
In around 80 per cent of cases of violence between married or cohabiting couples and former married or cohabiting couples the victim was a woman.
 
In numbers, violence between married or cohabiting couples and former married or cohabiting couples was on level with the previous year.
 
As regards to domestic violence and intimate partner violence against adults, 32.3 per cent of cases occurred between married couples, 22.6 per cent between cohabiting couples, 11.6 per cent between former married couples and 14.0 per cent between former cohabiting couples.
 
In all, 80.5 per cent of all domestic violence and intimate partner violence against adults took place between present and former married or cohabiting couples.
 
Among men, the share was 59.0 per cent and among women 87.4 per cent. The number of male victims was 950 and that of female victims 4,300.
 
Good one-half of attempted homicides and aggravated assaults were directed towards men.
 
When the victim was a man, the offender was also a man in one-half of the cases.
 
When a woman was a victim of an aggravated assault or attempted homicide, the suspect was a man in over 90 per cent of the cases.
 
In 2015, there were 292 aggravated assaults or attempted homicides, of which 157 were directed at men.
 
Of all recorded domestic violence and intimate partner violence cases, over one-half were assaults and nearly one-quarter petty assaults.
 
At least 14 per cent of all cases were menaces and nearly two per cent sexual exploitations of a child. Of the suspects, close on one-half were under the influence of alcohol or some other intoxicant at the time of committing the offence.
 
Slightly over one-half of domestic violence and intimate partner violence took place between persons living in the same household.
 
The legislative amendment, which entered into force at the beginning of 2011, considerably increased the number of recorded assault offences.
 
After the legislative amendment, petty assaults on minors or close relatives became officially prosecutable. In addition, at the beginning of April 2015, an amendment to the Child Welfare Act (1302/2014) came into effect, which extended the reporting obligation in cases where an offence against a child's life or health is suspected.
 
In 2015, cases of violence directed by parents against their underage children increased by 29.0 per cent compared with the previous year.
 
Acts against boys grew by 37.9 per cent and those against girls by 19.6 per cent. The amendments also appear to have increased the proportion of women as suspects of all domestic violence and intimate partner violence.
 
In 2010, the proportion of women suspected of domestic violence and intimate partner violence was 19.6 per cent, and in 2015 the corresponding proportion was 22.2 per cent.
 
Around one-third of violence directed by parents against their children was carried out by women. The share of violence performed by women was, however, the higher the younger the child victim was.
 
In cases where the victim was under six years old, the suspect was a woman (the child's mother) in 36.9 per cent of cases.
 
When the victim was aged between 15 and 17, the suspect was a woman in 31.6 per cent of cases.  
 
In 2009 to 2015, there were 3,500 victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence that, according to the police, had been victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence in at least two different years and 650 in three different years.
 
Women made up 76 per cent of those having become victims in two years and 85 per cent in three years. There were 470 underage persons that had been victims in several years as per the statistics.
 

Victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence 2010 to 2015

 

Relation between the victim and the suspect/year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Total 5,768 9,660 10,053 8,802 8,245 8,794
Suspect is the parent of the victim 1,393 1,876 2,311 1,862 1,799 2,315
Siblings 288 574 572 586 486 505
Directed by a child at his or her parent 289 510 505 469 487 470
Between spouses, total 2,469 4,444 4,424 3,805 3,572 3,581
...Spouse 1,548 2,780 2,765 2,387 2,196 2,105
...Co-habiting partner 921 1,664 1,659 1,418 1,376 1,476
Former spouse 530 970 920 873 830 760
Former co-habiting partner 606 979 1,014 948 885 915
Other person living in the same household 193 307 307 259 186 248

Violence directed at underage children by their parents 2015

 

Victim's age/person suspected Male Female Person suspected total
Number % Number % Number
0 - 6 522 63.0 306 36.9 828
7 - 14 673 62.8 398 37.1 1,071
15 - 17 162 68.3 75 31.6 237
Total 1,357 63.5 779 36.4 2,136
Source: Statistics on offences and coercive measures 2015, Statistics Finland.
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