JuVås

JuVås conducts research on violence in a primarily jurisprudential, legal context, including violence against the environment and violence and irregular, undocumented migrants. The research is conducted from different perspectives, such as gender, legal and sociological. By using multiple perspectives on legal protection and enforcement mechanisms, the research aims to gain new knowledge about justice for victims of violence.

Some research uses simulations using artificial intelligence (AI) to test legal assumptions and causal effects. This approach advances research methods in law and social sciences using AI and 'agent-based modelling'. New approaches can support foresight within the system and help build a picture of how to predict violence while suggesting protective and remedial solutions. The impact of violence is often transnational, which means that the research on violence at the law school, Juridicum also studies regional and global goal settings and state sovereignty.

The aim of the research is to identify and strengthen protections that can be used in practice and identify any gaps in Swedish and international contexts. The research group aims to use new approaches and interdisciplinarity to provide better knowledge about the consequences of proposed decisions on legal protection.