Summer 2025 featured articles

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Azala. Revista española de Ciencia Política          Azala. Comunicar aldizkaria       Azala. Revista de victimología.


FERNÁNDEZ GÓMEZ, L., LLORIA GARCÍA, P., VENTURA ALAMEDA, C. y YELA UCEDA, M., 2025. Violencia contra mujeres, niñas, niños y adolescentes en el ámbito digital. Ministerio de Igualdad, Asociación de Mujeres Juristas Themis.

The overall goal of this research is to understand the peculiarities of digital violence against women and minors, analysing its impact and proposing improvements to the regulatory framework. The key objectives focus on: analysing the nature and particularities of digital violence from a gender and childhood perspective; understanding the regulatory instruments for combating, prosecuting, and protecting victims; diagnosing the impact of violent and/or inappropriate explicit sexual content or violent content of any nature on minors, linking it to the normalisation of certain behaviours; evaluating the repercussion of information and communication technologies in the perpetuation of gender roles and stereotypes; assessing the impunity of aggressors in terms of the difficulty of prosecuting crimes in the digital world; and proposing actions to improve the implementation of regulations and screening and detection mechanisms.


GRUPO ESPAD, 2025. Conclusiones destacadas del proyecto europeo de encuestas escolares sobre alcohol y otras drogas (ESPAD) de 2024. Agencia de la Unión Europea sobre Drogas.

This publication summarises the key findings of the eighth round of the European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD), which surveyed 113,882 students aged 15-16 in 37 European countries in 2024. This edition marks 30 years of monitoring adolescent risk behaviours across Europe and introduces a new focus on mental well-being and prevention efforts, acknowledging the increasing importance of these factors in shaping adolescent health data.


TURNBOUGH, M.L., 2024. Individualización y cultura de autoayuda. Las personas jóvenes adultas en un contexto de cambio social. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Individualisation constitutes one of the defining changes of late modernity, a major social process that has redefined the relationship between the individual and society. This thesis examines the impact of this transformation and its discursive significance based on the experiences of young adults in Spain. Individualisation grants individuals an unprecedented historical significance and fosters the emergence of a self-help culture equipped with various tools that guide them in their search for biographical solutions to systemic problems. Identity becomes a task, and as observed in coaching, a new obligation is imposed on the individual: the obligation to continually work on oneself. This thesis aims to systematically analyse individualisation and its impact on the representations, practices, and support systems of young adults in vulnerable situations in Spain, specifically those who have transitioned from one crisis - the economic crisis that began in 2008 - to the pandemic caused by COVID-19.