Validation and Calibration of the Spanish Police Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment System (VioGén)

López-Ossorio, Juan José; Álvarez, José Luís González; Vicente, José Manuel Muñoz; Urruela, Carlota; Andrés-Pueyo, Antônio

doi:10.1007/s11896-019-09322-9

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“…This will favour the improvement of police decision-making using an evidence-informed approach during missing person investigations with the main goals of prioritising appropriate cases and identifying lead hypotheses leading to reduced harm and an effective use of police resources. Considering some Spanish predictive policing models, such as the main one in assessing the risk of reoffending in intimate partner violence cases (VioGén system; López-Ossorio, González-Alvarez, Muñoz, Urruela, & Pueyo, 2019), the findings of this research could be useful for the development of future research, which will facilitate the establishment of a predictive missing person risk assessment tool that could facilitate statistical identification of the most likely scenario and the risk of a harmed or fatal outcome.…”

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Behavioural themes in Spanish missing persons cases: An empirical typology

García-Barceló

Álvarez

Woolnough

et al. 2020

Journal Invest Psychology

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The high number of missing person reports that occur globally each year highlights the need for research in this academically neglected field. This research focuses on establishing whether there are different scenarios or behavioural themes that consistently appear in missing person cases in Spain, which could assist the police investigation process. A representative sample of 341 missing person police reports was collated and up to 27 behaviours, which occur during the disappearance, have been codified, as well as circumstances surrounding the case. Through multidimensional scaling four behavioural themes have been identified: intentional-escape, intentional-dysfunctional, unintentional-accidental, and forced-criminal. These findings entail implications, both in terms of prevention and in the scope of police investigations. Specifically, this research is considered a key step in the development of: (a) a predictive risk assessment system for harmed or deceased outcomes, and (b) in-depth review of forced-criminal disappearances that concur with homicide.

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“…Richardson 20 (KR-20) coefficient (Kuder & Richarson, 1937). The intentional-escape theme was .635, the intentional-dysfunctional was .592, the unintentional-accidental was .554, and the unintentional-criminal was .564.…”

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Behavioural themes in Spanish missing persons cases: An empirical typology

García-Barceló

Álvarez

Woolnough

et al. 2020

Journal Invest Psychology

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“…Entre las medidas basadas en el modelo actuarial se encuentran el sistema Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA; Hilton et al, 2004), la Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (DVRAG; Hilton et al, 2008) y la Danger Assessment tool (DA; J. C. . En España destaca el desarrollo e implementación del sistema para la Valoración Policial del Riesgo (VPR; Caballé Pérez et al, 2020;López Ossorio et al, 2019). Por otra parte, la Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (SARA; Kropp et al, 1999) y la Brief Spousal Assault Form for the Evaluation of Risk (B-SAFER; Kropp, Hart y Belfrage, 2005) son ejemplos de escalas basadas en el modelo de JPE.…”

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La Valoración del Riesgo de Reincidencia en Imputados por Violencia contra la Pareja: un Estudio Longitudinal con la Guía SARA

Arbach

Folino

2021

Anuario De Psicología Jurídica

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“…The risk of recidivism of all cases included in our sample was assessed using version 4.0 of the VPR and the VPER (the most current version at the time of data extraction). Both are validated police recidivism risk assessment tools (López-Ossorio et al, 2019a). VPR4.0 includes 39 risk indicators, and VPER4.0 includes 34 risk and 9 protection indicators.…”

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“…In addition, the Spanish judges can use this police risk assessment to issue protective orders (Caballé-Pérez et al, 2020). The risk of IPVAW is then reassessed with a second questionnaire, the Police Assessment of Risk Evolution tool (Valoración Policial de la Evolución del Riesgo; VPER), every time a significant incident occurs (such as a new complaint), or in predetermined periods of time (López-Ossorio et al, 2019a). The goal of the VioGén System dual assessment protocol (VPR and VPER) is to promptly identify reported individuals who pose a higher risk to their partners, in order to assign victim protection resources in the most efficient way; additionally, the risk management approach is oriented to the inactivation of the identified dynamic-relational risk indicators.…”

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Matching batterer typologies with their risk of recidivism: Boosting the applicability of typological research

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Soldino²,

Santos-Hermoso³

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In order to improve the applicability of criminal typologies, Spanish intimate partner violence against women offender subtypes (i.e., high instability/high antisociality, HiHa; low instability/high antisociality, LiHa, high instability/low antisociality, HiLa; low instability/low antisociality, LiLa) were matched with their police recidivism outcomes in a longitudinal study of 9,672 cases extracted from the VioGén System. Individuals with high antisociality features showed the highest recidivism (26.5% HiHa; 22.6% LiHa) and multi-recidivism rates (10.7% HiHa; 8.1% LiHa), and were more likely to be reported for new severe violent episodes against their victims (8.1% LiHa; 7.7% HiHa;) and to violate the protective orders imposed (28.8% HiHa; 28.1% LiHa). Following risk-need-responsivity principles, HiHa and LiHa offenders should be assigned higher intensity treatment programs than LiLa and HiLa individuals. Additionally, the risk posed by all offender subtypes decreased during the follow-up period; however, HiHa offenders presented with the highest risk over time and had a longer police monitoring. Considering this, law enforcement agencies should deploy the most intense police protection measures for victims of HiHa individuals. With regard to prison data, individuals with greater antisociality (HiHa and LiHa) and criminal versatility (generalist batterers) were the most represented in prison; therefore, it would be advisable to include therapeutic ingredients for common offenders in prison-based batterer intervention programs.

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Validation and Calibration of the Spanish Police Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment System (VioGén)

Cited by 24 publications

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Behavioural themes in Spanish missing persons cases: An empirical typology

Behavioural themes in Spanish missing persons cases: An empirical typology

La Valoración del Riesgo de Reincidencia en Imputados por Violencia contra la Pareja: un Estudio Longitudinal con la Guía SARA

Matching batterer typologies with their risk of recidivism: Boosting the applicability of typological research

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