Fourteen of the 15 murdered in 2014 who had reported their aggressor for sexist violence had a police risk assessment "not appreciated » or «low», according to the latest report of the Observatory of Domestic and Gender Violence of the Gene…

The Police will begin to apply this Wednesday the new protocol for assessing the level of risk of victims of gender violence, after the Secretary of State for Security has officially notified the instruction. As a novelty, the judicial auth…

This study describes the rationale, development, and validation of the intimate partner violence (IPV) police risk assessment forms of the VioGén System of the Spanish Ministry of Interior (VPR4.0 and VPER4.0), which promote greater predict…

As part of a program to curb feminicides, Spain built VioGén, an algorithm that assesses the risk faced by victims of gender violence. It remains a work in progress.

In the early morning of 24 February 2018, Itziar P., a psychologist living…

We present the results of 7 months of work of Eticas and Ana Bella Foundation with the available data and affected women and other stakeholders. As mentioned above, it is a part of a broader external auditing project where Eticas, in collab…

Lack of transparency, underestimation of psychological violence, “rigid” questions that do not allow explanations or evaluations that take into account the police resources available when assigning a level of risk to the victim. These are s…

Spanish algorithm leaves domestic violence victims out in the cold: For the past 15 years, Spain has been using an algorithmic system called VioGén to help the police assess the risk women face when they file complaints of abuse. But the sy…