GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEJAMAICAMEASURESSOCIAL POLICY EVALUATION PROJECT
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Social Policy Evaluation Project
Type of Measure
Monitoring and evaluation > Policies
Form of Violence
Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence
Year
2002
Brief Description
The Jamaican Social Policy Evaluation Project (JASPEV) includes violence against women as a concern of goal 1: human security towards "a peaceful and mutually respectful society with increased safety, security and freedom from fear in the home and in public spaces".

Goals

Indicators and measures

KEY GOAL 1. HUMAN SECURITY
  • Murder rate
  • Incidence of major crimes
  • Incidence of Domestic Violence
  • Incidence of school closure due to public disorder
  • Incidence of roadblocks/closure of businesses/civil unrest/ social disorder

1.1 Improve community engagement in crime prevention and strengthen local capacity for non-violent conflict resolution
  • Public level of fear and crime
  • Willingness to report crime

1.2Continually improve access to justice and confidence in justice system for all Jamaicans

1.3 Enhance protection from abuse for citizens & vulnerable groups (e.g. people in institutions, homeless, mentally ill and physically challenged)
  • Rate and speed of disposal of cases
  • Utilization of court or other legal processes, access to legal aid etc. and # of Legal Aid clinics
  • Incidences of abuse

1.4 Enhance impartiality of the criminal justice system, combating discriminatory norms, values, attitudes and behaviours
  • Gender balance in senior personnel- judges, police
  • Trends in sentencing of offenders by gender and socio/economic status- occupation, poverty map, location*

1.5 Enhance wider societal response to restore security
  • Level of provision of social support to victims
  • Extent and effectiveness of state response to incidences of security crises
  • GOJ reporting on social development and CEDAW
Source of Information
Response of the Government of Jamaica to the questionnaire on violence against women
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