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Reports of domestic violence increased 25 percent in 5 years in Costa Rica

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November 9th, 2015 (ICR News) The number of reported cases of domestic violence in Costa Rica have increased 25 percent in the last five years, according to an analysis by Amelia Rueda based on data provided by the Directorate of Health Surveillance.

 

In 2014, public health officials recorded 10,933 cases of domestic violence nationwide; while just in the first six months of 2015 there have been more than 6,000 recorded cases.

 

Domestic violence as defined in the analysis is “any aggression, physical or psychological, suffered by a person inside their own home where the offender is a family member,” according to Amelia Rueda.

 

The largest increase in reported cases at the provincial level was recorded in Heredia, which witnessed an increase in reported cases of 266 percent over the last five years.

 

The government has labeled domestic violence as a public health problem as a result of the increasing number of reports, though a Health Surveillance official, Gloriela Brenes told Amelia Rueda that the increasing statistics could be in large part due to an increasing tendency of victims to report cases of domestic violence.

 

Brenes also said that the incidence of domestic violence is statistically equivalent in both urban and rural areas of the country.

 

In seven out of ten recorded cases of domestic violence in Costa Rica over the last five years, a woman is the victim.

 

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  • gc

    there has been no increase just a change of definition. i am all in favor of jailing women beaters, or beaters of anyone, but the domestic laws of psycho abuse and banning men from homes based on claims with no evidence is the story here.

    • Yeims

      Before the domestic violence law was passed, the UN was down here big time, taking lawyers and judges and legislatures out to lunch and also training them on how to interpret laws according to gender. And not only is evidence discarded, the woman can say absolutely anything she wants and there is no recourse whatever for the man despite any concrete evidence he might have to offer. Also, he cannot charge her with lying; the law clearly states that the woman’s version takes precedence over than man’s if there is any doubt at all, and the man cannot press charges of perjury against her, either.

    • Ken Morris

      I agree, though I suspect that reporting is also up. There has been a pretty big campaign to encourage people (well, women) to report domestic violence, and I would imagine that it’s been effective. We however have no idea whether the real rates of violence have increased, decreased, or remained the same.

      • zzzzz

        It is a real problem that they are trying to solve and in a way making it easy for cops to intervene in domestic violence cases makes it possible at all but there is not much in the way of proving a claim nor exploring the idea that women aren’t always the victims. It is a really a hard thing to figure out.

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