I think my response would be very similar to some of the barriers to women getting justice for sexual assault through the criminal justice system, and other forms of violence. I appreciate Mr. Adam's comments and the questions about how to improve training for front-line providers. The training needs to go beyond technical training and what is technically illegal about this is and what the technical investigative powers are, because I think there's a real lack of understanding of the kinds of impacts that online violence can have on people. Because there isn't this physical proximity and there isn't a physical risk of violence or physical evidence of property destruction, it can be trivialized and it's viewed as lesser or not prioritized.
This would be the same recommendations we would make in many situations: understanding the dynamics of gender-based violence. As soon as you understand the dynamics of power and control that the violence is really about, then you can see much more easily how online violence continues to perpetuate that and to cause really serious harm to its victims.
Right now there seems to be, right from front-line police and all the way up to judges, a difficulty in grasping its seriousness and true impact. It tends to be a lesser priority.