Published: October 05, 2020
For some men, killing their partners or children will be their first act of physical violence, but they almost uniformly have a history of perpetrating coercive control
A debate is developing across Australia – one with increasing momentum but some emerging divisiveness. Should Australia’s criminal laws recognise domestic abuse in all its guises and condemn what many victims describe as the worst parts: coercive control?
Coercive control describes a broad range of behaviours that one person (usually a man) uses to intimidate, humiliate, surveil, gaslight and isolate another person (usually a female intimate partner) and strip them of their sense of autonomy and self-worth so as to have control over them.
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