Abstract

Since the recent COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide societies enlarged the daily use of new technologies and Internet. Even these advances have brought positive aspects in different fields like medicine or education; cybercrime could be highlighted as the main risk within the digital space. The aim of this paper is to present the main results of my PhD that deals with the treatment of adult victims of cyber-sexual violence from the European and Spanish perspective. Since 2012, the European Parliament has been enacting different Directives, Regulations and strategies in order to combat cybercrime and try to help victims of cyber violence [1]. However, the implementation of these regulations in the Member States has been irregular. For example, in Spain, while there is a proper regulation of victims’ rights and interests, in practice legal operators are not applying this regulation properly due to different factors (e.g., lack of human or material resources, the myths related to gender violence or the lack of training of legal professionals in computer forensics and cyber violence)