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Rape Crisis Centre Tukinainen

Rape Crisis Centre Tukinainen. www.tukinainen.fi Finland Financial support: Slot machine association in Finland (Ray). Tukinainen , the support center for victims who have been sexually assaulted (NGO).

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Rape Crisis Centre Tukinainen

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  1. Rape Crisis Centre Tukinainen www.tukinainen.fi Finland Financial support: Slot machine association in Finland (Ray)

  2. Tukinainen, the support center for victims who have been sexually assaulted (NGO) • provides help, support and guidance for persons who have been sexually assaulted, raped and/ or abused and for their families - the therapeutic and legal help of Tukinainen is free of charge for victims • influences the professional and legal procedures, as well as the authorities and public opinion in order to decrease and prevent sexual assaults experienced by women and girls (about 90% of sexually assaulted are girls/ women) • provides cooperation, consultation and training for professionals, authorities, organisations and educational institutions in a variety of fields • supplements the social and health services as well as official system in its own special field

  3. Help, support, guidance, consultation, training • a free crisis telphone line and a free legal telephone line • groups for victims, a variety of fixed groups and groups for persons close to the victim • personal appointments with a crisis counsellor and/ or lawyer • legal assistance and support in connection with a trial, report of an offence and preliminary investigation • tailored consultation, trainingand work guidance liable to charge for professionals in a variety of fields

  4. Crisis line Legal line January 135 27 February 151 34 March 168 37 April 117 35 May 137 24 June 127 30 July 144 34 August 167 43 September 140 24 October 185 31 November 147 40 December 120 24 Together 1738 (all) 338 (first calls) Statistics the number of the calls 2010 monthly (together 2158 calls), first calls 625

  5. The reasons of calls in year 2010 rape (28,31%) rape-attemps (>2%) sexual abuse (adult) 9,10 % forcing to sexual act (4,13 %) incest (8,96%) other child sexual abuse (10,81%) suspected incest/ abuse (1,99%) sexual harrashment and molestation (>2 %) assault outside of close relationship (2,56%) violence in close relationships (13,23 %) psychological violence 6,54 % restraining order2,84 % other reason (7,11 %)

  6. Tthe Information of persons, who make a phone call: no information (< 2 %) victim (61,59 %) near relative (11,59 %) other relative (3,48 %) friend (0,5 %) colleague (< 0,5 %) neighbour (< 0,5 %) authority (11,09 %) offender (1,16 %) other spouse (2,15%)

  7. Age of Victim, when violence has happened: no information (32,07 %) under 7 years (5,78 %) under 10 years (6,28 %) 11-15 years (12,87 %) 16-20 years (12,41%) 21-30 years (15,11 %) 31-40 years (7,95 %) 41-50 years (4,46 %) 51-60 years (< 2 %) over 60 years (0,01 %)

  8. Age of Victim, when she/he calls to Tukinainen: no information (27,96 %) under 7 years (< 1 % %) under 10 years (0,77 %) 11-15 years (6,69 %) 16-20 years 12,33 %) 21-30 years (22,37 %) 31-40 years (13,98 %) 41-50 years (8,92 %) 51-60 years (4,21 %) over 60 years (0,01 %)

  9. Information of perpetrators: partner (2,47%) spouse (10,95 %) ex-partner (3,71 %) parent (7,42 %) other familymember (3,71 %) other relative (4,95 %) friend (> 1 %) colleague (1,06 %) other relationship (11,66 %) people get to know each other in restaurant (4,42 %) doctor, therapist etc.(> 1 %) Authority (5,83 %) relation, which based on a position of an offender (2,65 %) based on a victim dependence an offender (2,12 %) relation, which based agedifference between a victim and an offender (0,35 %) unknown (11,48 %) people get to know each other with help of Internet (> 2 %) neighbour (2,47 %) no information (17,48%)

  10. Time between, a sexual crime has happened and a victim of a sexual crime has called to Tukinainen: less than 2 weeks (9,15 %) less than 3 months (11,24 %) less than 6 months (5,16 %) less than a year (9,86 %) less than 5 years (10,33 %) less than 10 years (8,22 %) over 10 years (14,08%) over 20 years (10,33 %) time of commision is not limited (commision is continuous) (13,15%) no information (8,45 %)

  11. Symptoms of victims: physical (13,41 %) mental (27,94 %) PTSD (post traumatic disorders) (23,62%) social (11,68 %) sexual (5,8 %) economical (< 1 %) changes of circumstanses of victim’s life (change of work, apartment) (6,06 %) work/studingdisability (4,84 %) self-destructive (1,38 %) abuser of intoxicants (1,38 %)

  12. Reporting: report of an offence has been done (27,98 %) no report of an offence (43,88 %) hearing (9,22 %) criminal investigation is unfinished (4,29 %) criminal investigation is finished (> 1 %) consideration of charges (> 1 %) remission of prosecution (1,43 %) legal process is unfinished (1,43 %) has complained to higher court instance (0,16 %) legal process is finished (0,48 %) accused person has passed judgement (> 0,5 %) adverse decision (> 0,5 %) report of an offence has taken back (>0,5 %) statue-barred offence (0,48 %) conciliation (> 1 %) no information (4,61 %)

  13. Threatening, when offender is partner, ex-partner or spouse : 34,9 % Homicide threatening 53,8 % Violent threatening 15,4 % Other threatening 15,4 % No information 15,4 % (Statistics 2009)

  14. Internet-support - Nettitukinainen www.nettitukinainen.fi • possibility to contact totally anonymously (create a pseudonym/nickname and a password) • well crypted and safe way to communicate (ssl-crypting) • helps handicapped persons as deafs and other, who have not the courage or ability to contact help lines

  15. Sensitivity training programme Senja-project • Main tasks: • 1)educate employees such as police, police students, prosecutors, judges, legal aid personal, laywers who are working in proceedings and are facing sexually abused people • In the year 2010 almost 500 participants took part of the sensitivity training and 300 of them were police officers • 2) victims of sexual violence will not experience secondary traumatisation or secondary victimisation in proceedings

  16. Sensitivity training • Cooperation with finnish authorities: • Police administration • Police College of Finland • The Office of the Prosecutor General • Ministry of Justice, Finland

  17. Sensitivity training topics • 1.Trauma • 2. How to meet a victim of sexual violence/sexual abuse • 3. How to meet a victim of domestic violence • 4. How to meet a victim with intellectual disabilities of domestic violence and sexual violence/sexual abuse • 5. How to meet a young victim of sexual violence/abuse • 6. How to meet an immigrant victim of domestic violence and sexual violence/sexual abuse

  18. Legal Aid doesn’t depend on the income of the victim • All victims of sexual violence or domestic violence as well as victims of trafficking have right to a cost-free legal adviser/assistant: • During the police investigation (reporting, hearing) in all cases • In all stages of a trial, if the prosecutor prosecutes for an offence and the victim demands compensation for damages

  19. www.senjanetti.fi • Internet pages are going to be published in 2011 – Instructions in Finnish, Swedish and English • New instructions folders will be made and sent to all police stations, local prosecution offices, public legal aid offices and courts in Finland

  20. www.tukinainen.fi

  21. THE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL CRIME, SERIOUS VIOLENT CRIME AND TRAFFICKING HAVE A RIGHT TO have - A TRIAL COUNSELAND - A SUPPORT PERSON AT THE EXPENSE OF THE STATE, REGARDLESS OF HER OR HIS FINANCIAL STATUS (= free of charge in a case of a public prosecutor) - Public Legal Aid Attorney, Advocates, other lawyers - in pre-trial investigations (always) and the trial (lawyer in a case the victim has claims, support person in every case)

  22. Finnish Penal Code Chapter 20 Sexual offencesViolence as a essential element of Rape • Section 1 - Rape • A person who coerces another into sexual intercourse by the use of violence or threat of violence shall be sentenced for rape to imprisonment for at least one year and at most six years. • A person shall also be sentenced for rape if he/she takes advantage of the incapacity of another to defend himself/herself and has sexual intercourse with him/her, after rendering him/her unconscious or causing him/her to be in such a state of incapacity owing to fear or another similar reason. • An attempt is punishable.

  23. Finnish Penal Code Chapter 20 Sexual offencesViolence as a essential element of Rape Section 2- Aggravated rape • If, in the rape, • - grievous bodily injury, serious illness or a state of mortal danger is inflicted on another;- the offence is committed by several people; or especially hardmental or physical suffering is caused;- the offence is committed in a particularly brutal, cruel or humiliating manner; or - a firearm, edged weapon or other lethal instrument is used or a threat of other serious violence is made, • and the rape is aggravated also when assessed as a whole, the offender shall be sentenced for aggravated rape to imprisonment for at least two years and at most ten years.An attempt is punishable.

  24. Finnish Penal Code Chapter 20 Sexual offencesViolence as a essential element of Rape Section 3 - Coercion into sexual intercourse • If the rape, in view of the slightness of the violence or threat and the other particulars of the offence, is deemed to have been committed under mitigating circumstanceswhen assessed as a whole, the offender shall be sentenced for coercion into sexual intercourse to imprisonment for at most three years. • A person who coerces another into sexual intercourse by a threat other than that referred to in section 1(1) shall also be sentenced for coercion into sexual intercourse. An attempt is punishable.

  25. Finnish Penal Code Chapter 20 Sexual offences Section 5 - Sexual abuse • A person who abuses his/her position and entices one of the following into sexual intercourse, into another sexual act essentially violating his/her right of sexual self-determination, or into submission to such an act, • - a person younger than eighteen years of age, who in a school or other institution is subject to the authority or supervision of the offender or in another comparable manner subordinate to the offender; • - a person younger than eighteen years of age, whose capacity of independent sexual self-determination, owing to his/her immaturity or the age difference of the persons involved, is essentially inferior to that of the offender, where the offender blatantly takes advantage of the immaturity,

  26. Finnish Penal Code Chapter 20 Sexual offences Section 5 - Sexual abuse • a patient in a hospital or other institution, whose capacity to defend himself/herself is essentially impaired owing to illness, handicap or other infirmity; or • - a person who is especially dependent on the offender, where the offender blatantly takes advantage of the dependence, shall be sentenced for sexual abuse to a fine or to imprisonment for at most four years

  27. Finnish Penal Code Chapter 20 Sexual offences Section 5 - Sexual abuse • A person shall also be sentenced for sexual abuse if he/she takes advantage of the incapacity of another to defend himself/herself or to make or express a decision, owing to unconsciousness, illness, handicap or other helplessness, and has sexual intercourse with him/her, or gets him/her to perform a sexual act essentially violating his/her right of sexual self-determination or to submit to such an act.(This will be moved to Chapter 20 Section 1 RAPE) An attempt is punishable.

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