Cyber Violence Form of Domestic Violence

Abstract

The scientific paper aims to present an approach to cyber violence in relation to abuse in the real world. In recent times, more attention is being paid to cybercrime, including the problem of domestic abuse facilitated by digital technology and online communications, the increasing accessibility of the internet, the rapid spread of mobile information and the widespread use of social media. Modern technology offers domestic aggressors new ways to control, coerce and pursue their victims, even going beyond spatial limits. Aggressors can use anti-victim technology to monitor, harass them, install spyware on victims’ phones or attack them on social media to humiliate them. Also, numerous other situations of cyber violence faced by victims in the pandemic have been reported, such as: the discovery of viruses in devices, the receipt of suspicious attachments, the compromise of mail or social media accounts, the receipt of fraudulent emails.