Integral Monitoring System in Cases of Gender Violence VioGén System

• Main Authors: José Luis González Álvarez, Juan José López Ossorio, Carlota Urruela, Marina Rodríguez Díaz
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Behavior & Law Research Foundation 2018-12-01
• Series: Behavior & Law Journal
• Online Access: https://behaviorandlawjournal.com/BLJ/article/view/56

This paper discusses the normative origins, elements and operative foundations of the Integral Monitoring System in Cases ofGender Violence (VioGén System), a national government software application in Spain, implemented since 2007 to coordinate the actions of Spanish public professionals involved in the monitoring, assistance and protection of abused women and their minor children. Thousands of specialist users from the different integrated institutions access daily this application, which already manages more than 510,000 cases. The law enforcement part of the VioGén System is, for the time being, the most developed one, being the "police assessment of the risk of new violence” one of the main functionalities of the aforementioned system, for which two actuarial questionnaires have been developed (VPR and VPER). These questionnaires count with almost three million assessments; which consequently help in carrying out forensic, penitentiary and welfare assessments. Although the VioGén System currently only deals with cases of gender violence, in the future it may incorporate data on domestic violence, and technically it may be extended to the monitoring of other vulnerable groups.