“Domestic abuse is everyone’s problem”: why criminalising coercive control just isn’t enough
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Following their consultation “strengthening the Law on Domestic Abuse”, the Government plans to introduce a law on domestic abuse which criminalises ‘coercive control’.
By Siobhan Weare
The legislation will make controlling and coercive behaviour between those in an intimate relationship a criminal offence. Introducing such legislation is not sufficient to combat the issue of domestic abuse unless it is supported by an improvement in the responses of criminal justice agencies to abuse, and i...
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