The author submits data on the incidence of violence committed on children, obtained from the department of health, home office and the sphere of social welfare covering the period from 1995 to 2000. She compares the incidence of new cases during the given period and data presented by different departments and mentions the lack of uniform statistics as regards the classification of violence and age categories. The author summarizes also data from prevalence studies made in the nineties pertaining to some form of violence committed on children. These were data from representative and descriptive studies where some forms of child abuse and neglect were the main or partial problem.

        Key words: child abuse and neglect, basic and special forms of child abuse and neglect, incidence of the syndrome, incidence data, prevalence data