Current Dirty John - Coercive Control

[Kurve]

Coercive control is now a criminal offence in the UK carrying a prison term of up to 5 years. Eventually, we'll get it here.

If anybody has checked in to the really popular podcast DIRTY JOHN they will probably already be familiar with how insidious and dangerous it is. Worth a listen.

The line between appropriate relationship dynamics and unlawful behaviour might seem a bit blurry at times but the difference in an abusive relationship is that decisions by a dominant partner can become rules that, when broken, lead to consequences for the victim.

This list isn't exhaustive but building on the examples of the UK's Statutory Guidance, relevant behaviour of the perpetrator can include:

• Isolating a person from their friends and family
• Depriving them of their basic needs
• Monitoring their time
• Monitoring a person via online communication tools or using spyware
• Taking control over aspects of their everyday life, such as where they can go, who they can see, what to wear and when they can sleep
• Depriving them access to support services, such as specialist support or medical services
• Repeatedly putting them down such as telling them they are worthless
• Enforcing rules and activity which humiliate, degrade or dehumanise the victim
• Forcing the victim to take part in criminal activity such as shoplifting, neglect or abuse of children to encourage self-blame and prevent disclosure to authorities
• Financial abuse including control of finances, such as only allowing a person a punitive allowance
• Control ability to go to school or place of study
• Taking wages, benefits or allowances
• Threats to hurt or kill
• Threats to harm a child
• Threats to reveal or publish private information (e.g. threatening to 'out' someone)
• Threats to hurt or physically harming a family pet
• Assault
• Criminal damage (such as destruction of household goods)
• Preventing a person from having access to transport or from working
• Preventing a person from being able to attend school, college or University
• Family 'dishonour'
• Reputational damage
• Disclosure of sexual orientation
• Disclosure of HIV status or other medical condition without consent
• Limiting access to family, friends and finances

Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship | The Crown Prosecution Service

www.cps.gov.uk

Real Crime Profile: More on Coercive Control with Professor Evan Stark on Apple Podcasts

Show Real Crime Profile, Ep More on Coercive Control with Professor Evan Stark - 16 May 2017

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[Power Raid]

It's now a criminal offence in the UK carrying a prison term of up to 5 years. Eventually, we'll get it here.

If anybody has checked in to the really popular podcast DIRTY JOHN they will probably already be familiar with how insidious and dangerous it is. Worth a listen.

The line between appropriate relationship dynamics and unlawful behaviour might seem a bit blurry at times but the difference in an abusive relationship is that decisions by a dominant partner can become rules that, when broken, lead to consequences for the victim.

This list isn't exhaustive but building on the examples of the UK's Statutory Guidance, relevant behaviour of the perpetrator can include:

• Isolating a person from their friends and family
• Depriving them of their basic needs
• Monitoring their time
• Monitoring a person via online communication tools or using spyware
• Taking control over aspects of their everyday life, such as where they can go, who they can see, what to wear and when they can sleep
• Depriving them access to support services, such as specialist support or medical services
• Repeatedly putting them down such as telling them they are worthless
• Enforcing rules and activity which humiliate, degrade or dehumanise the victim
• Forcing the victim to take part in criminal activity such as shoplifting, neglect or abuse of children to encourage self-blame and prevent disclosure to authorities
• Financial abuse including control of finances, such as only allowing a person a punitive allowance
• Control ability to go to school or place of study
• Taking wages, benefits or allowances
• Threats to hurt or kill
• Threats to harm a child
• Threats to reveal or publish private information (e.g. threatening to 'out' someone)
• Threats to hurt or physically harming a family pet
• Assault
• Criminal damage (such as destruction of household goods)
• Preventing a person from having access to transport or from working
• Preventing a person from being able to attend school, college or University
• Family 'dishonour'
• Reputational damage
• Disclosure of sexual orientation
• Disclosure of HIV status or other medical condition without consent
• Limiting access to family, friends and finances

Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship | The Crown Prosecution Service

www.cps.gov.uk

Real Crime Profile: More on Coercive Control with Professor Evan Stark on Apple Podcasts

Show Real Crime Profile, Ep More on Coercive Control with Professor Evan Stark - 16 May 2017

podcasts.apple.com

I would go one further and have compulsory reporting obligations when identified as is with concerns of child abuse

 

[Kurve]

Coincidentally, this came out late last night.

" .... it's a precursor to most intimate partner homicides."

Could the Government outlaw controlling behaviour?

Campaigners in the UK have criminalised non-physical abuse, and Australian politicians are exploring whether to do the same. Political reporter Nour Haydar explains.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kurve]

I would go one further and have compulsory reporting obligations when identified as is with concerns of child abuse

Agree, totally. It seems as if the message isn't getting across, compulsory reporting obligations would send a strong one.

 

[Kurve]

Conviction overturned as a court found she'd been a victim of coercive control.

Sally killed her husband, but a new law let her walk free

Trusted and independent source of local, national and world news. In-depth analysis, business, sport, weather and more.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kurve]

There's some resistance to this with claims focus should be on education but criminalising the behaviour will more effectively drive the education. Or nothing changes.

The Northern Territory Government could soon criminalise coercive control abuse, as domestic violence rates climb across the Territory.

Coercive control abuse victims are falling through the cracks of existing laws, expert says

Abuse through coercive control is a key cause of intimate partner homicides but is widely misunderstood. Now the Northern Territory Government is considering laws to criminalise it.

www.abc.net.au

 

[mr bagcroft]

Sounds like they are just trying to make narcissism illegal..
Not a bad thing IMO.

 

[Kurve]

Coercive control inquiry gets underway
Of the 100-plus submissions put forward to the NSW Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control, it is the personal stories that are most harrowing.

"Some time ago, my kind and gentle friend was brutally murdered by her husband," reads one submission.

"His final act of control was his first of physical violence. My friend had been subjected to years of what I now identify as coercive control."

Other submissions outline lived experience in painful detail.

"For three years I was subjected to predatory and derogatory acts by my then partner, the acts not only satisfied his need for control, but also had a sinister motive to shame and humiliate me."

The submissions will be examined as part of a three-day inquiry tasked with answering a suite of questions posed in a state government discussion paper around the potential introduction of coercive control legislation in NSW.

Live: NSW Now: Man stabbed in Merrylands, coercive control inquiry begins

MORNING BRIEFING: A man is in hospital after being stabbed in the neck, chest and back in Western Sydney overnight, while NSW Parliament hears personal stories of women who have been victims of domestic violence using coercive control.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kurve]

 

[Kurve]

Kelly Wilkinson's accused killer wakes from coma, informed of charges

The man charged with the Gold Coast woman's murder remains under police guard in a Brisbane hospital after sustaining serious burns to his hands and airway.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kurve]

Yay. It's a start.

Coercive control to be criminalised in Queensland under new domestic violence laws

Coercive control will be a criminal offence in Queensland by the end of 2023 in a ruling labelled historic ...

www.9news.com.au

 

[Kurve]

Seven years in jail for 'insidious' coercive control part of draft bill released by NSW government

A draft bill set to go before state parliament defines domestic abuse and proposes lengthy jail sentences for abusers who use coercive control in intimate relationships.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Angry Red Bull]

Coercive control is now a criminal offence in the UK carrying a prison term of up to 5 years. Eventually, we'll get it here.

If anybody has checked in to the really popular podcast DIRTY JOHN they will probably already be familiar with how insidious and dangerous it is. Worth a listen.

The line between appropriate relationship dynamics and unlawful behaviour might seem a bit blurry at times but the difference in an abusive relationship is that decisions by a dominant partner can become rules that, when broken, lead to consequences for the victim.

This list isn't exhaustive but building on the examples of the UK's Statutory Guidance, relevant behaviour of the perpetrator can include:

• Isolating a person from their friends and family
• Depriving them of their basic needs
• Monitoring their time
• Monitoring a person via online communication tools or using spyware
• Taking control over aspects of their everyday life, such as where they can go, who they can see, what to wear and when they can sleep
• Depriving them access to support services, such as specialist support or medical services
• Repeatedly putting them down such as telling them they are worthless
• Enforcing rules and activity which humiliate, degrade or dehumanise the victim
• Forcing the victim to take part in criminal activity such as shoplifting, neglect or abuse of children to encourage self-blame and prevent disclosure to authorities
• Financial abuse including control of finances, such as only allowing a person a punitive allowance
• Control ability to go to school or place of study
• Taking wages, benefits or allowances
• Threats to hurt or kill
• Threats to harm a child
• Threats to reveal or publish private information (e.g. threatening to 'out' someone)
• Threats to hurt or physically harming a family pet
• Assault
• Criminal damage (such as destruction of household goods)
• Preventing a person from having access to transport or from working
• Preventing a person from being able to attend school, college or University
• Family 'dishonour'
• Reputational damage
• Disclosure of sexual orientation
• Disclosure of HIV status or other medical condition without consent
• Limiting access to family, friends and finances

Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship | The Crown Prosecution Service

www.cps.gov.uk

Real Crime Profile: More on Coercive Control with Professor Evan Stark on Apple Podcasts

Show Real Crime Profile, Ep More on Coercive Control with Professor Evan Stark - 16 May 2017

podcasts.apple.com

Desirable shopping list, but truth is many of the list are themselves requiring elaborate and complex definitional and policy framework to trip an offence as to almost make the crime too often unenforceable. That then lends itself to a endemic failure to prosecute which has been the experience in Tasmania. A crime since 2004 and no prosecutions. That clearly doesn't achieve the objective which must be to discourage eradicate the conduct willingly or by intervention and the escalation from it. So my personal opinion is that a crime of coercive control would likely be doomed to failure. So how can the problem be tackled?

There are a battery of offences such as intimidation, common assault which have low level triggering criteria. I think a better solution would be to use these pathways and completion of a questionnaire by police and victims to determine existence of CC and at risk relationships. Mandatory education programs can then be implemented to facilitate changes within the relationships for both victim and perpetrator to help eradicate the behavioural traits and attachment dynamics that inflame outcomes and if not then at least empower the victim to leave. A dose of prevention than charges after a preventable DV to punish. Too late. Yes attachment styles and behavioural traits can change over time. Treat the cause than the symptom

Whatever is done must be set up to succeed. Criminalizing it imo won't achieve success.