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Mireia Molina Sánchez
personal investigador en formación Universitat de València
Spain
Andrea García Ortiz
Español
Spain
Vol 44 No Ext. (2023): Inteligencia artificial y sistema penal, Articles, pages 1-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/epc.44.8854
Submitted: 19-11-2022 Accepted: 23-02-2023 Published: 27-11-2023
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Abstract

Public powers have some obligations in relation to the prevention of violence against women. In order to comply with these due diligence standards, Spain has developed the VioGén System, a predictive algorithm that assigns a certain level of risk to women who report having suffered gender-based violence, which will be taken into account in the allocation of protection measures.


But any risk assessment tool is inherently prone to a certain number of errors and the people who use it can also make mistakes. The question then arises as to whether the State should be held accountable for such mistakes when it has failed to provide the protection to which it is obliged by law and international bodies. This is the problem analysed in this paper: whether the public powers can be held liable for errors in the operation of VioGén.