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Table 4 Number of acts of violence reported by residents and professionals

From: Assessing reported cases of sexual and gender-based violence, causes and preventive strategies, in European asylum reception facilities

Total Acts Violence

Residents

Professionals

Total Acts

Female

Male

Acts N = 510 (%)

Female

Male

Acts N = 600 (%)

N = 1110 (%)

Physical Violence

207 (40.6)

259 (43.2)

466 (42.0)

 Singular non life-threathening

53 (25.6)

73 (35.3)

126 (24.7)

72 (27.8)

58 (22.5)

131a (21.8)

257 (23.2)

 Multiple non life- threathening

11 (5.3)

18 (8.7)

29 (5.7)

24 (9.3)

16 (6.2)

40 (6.7)

69 (6.2)

 Singular life- threathening

13 (6.3)

23 (11.1)

36 (7.1)

34 (13.1)

25 (9.7)

59 (9.8)

95 (8.6)

 Multiple life- threathening

2 (1.0)

11 (5.3)

13 (2.5)

18 (6.9)

10 (3.9)

28 (4.7)

41 (3.7)

 Killing

1 (0.5)

2 (1.0)

3 (0.6)

1 (0.4)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.2)

4 (0.4)

Psychological Violence

192 (37.6)

260 (43.3)

452 (40.7)

 Verbal violence

34 (17.7)

43 (22.4)

77 (15.1)

46 (17.7)

43 (16.5)

89 (14.8)

166 (15.0)

 Humiliation

23 (12.0)

52 (27.1)

75 (14.7)

23 (8.8)

22 (8.5)

45 (7.5)

120 (10.8)

 Threatening

9 (4.7)

20 (10.4)

29 (5.7)

46 (17.7)

39 (15.0)

85 (14.2)

114 (10.3)

 Confinement

1 (0.5)

3 (1.6)

4 (0.8)

3 (1.2)

3 (1.2)

6 (1.0)

10 (0.9)

 Relational violence

6 (3.1)

1 (0.5)

7 (1.4)

25 (9.6)

9 (3.5)

35a (5.8)

42 (3.8)

Sexual Violence

27 (5.3)

38 (6.3)

65 (5.9)

 Sexual harrasment

6 (22.2)

6 (22.2)

12 (2.4)

11 (28.9)

10 (26.3)

21 (3.5)

33 (3.0)

 Sexual abuse

3 (11.1)

3 (11.1)

6 (1.2)

4 (10.5)

2 (5.3)

6 (1.0)

12 (1.1)

 Attempt to rape

1 (3.7)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.2)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.1)

 Rape

0 (0.0)

3 (11.1)

3 (0.6)

2 (5.3)

1 (2.6)

4a (0.7)

7 (0.6)

 Sexual exploitation

2 (7.4)

3 (11.1)

5 (1.0)

5 (13.2)

2 (5.3)

7 (1.2)

12 (1.1)

Harmfull Cultural Practices

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

Socio-economic Violence

84 (16.5)

43 (7.2)

127 (11.4)

 Discrimination

9 (10.7)

21 (25.0)

30 (5.9)

7 (16.3)

7 (16.3)

14 (2.3)

44 (4.0)

 Refusal of assistance

18 (21.4)

27 (32.1)

45 (8.6)

9 (20.9)

16 (37.2)

25 (4.2)

68 (6.1)

 Social exclusion

4 (4.8)

3 (3.6)

7 (1.4)

0 (0.0)

2 (4.7)

2 (0.3)

9 (0.8)

 Refusal of legal protection

0 (0.0)

2 (2.4)

2 (0.4)

1 (2.3)

1 (2.3)

2 (0.3)

6 (0.5)

  1. aOne missing value