“…In Spain, a victim may leave the legal system by dropping the charges at any moment of the procedure or by refusing to testify against their partner when ratifying the complaint, or at trial, benefiting from article 416 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Consistent with other papers in the field in Spain’s literature (e.g., Vázquez, Rivas, Suarez, & Panadero, 2018), in this work, we assume different terms such as renunciation, disengagement from legal proceedings, retraction, drop charges, abandon prosecution, or refuse to continue in the legal system, among others, that are understood as a victim’s decision to withdraw from legal action. All these terms used in the article reflect the object of interest in this work: women leaving the judicial system once a complaint against the (ex)partner has already been filed.…”