What is coercive control?
Coercive control involves deliberate, repeated patterns of physical or non-physical abuse used to hurt, scare, intimidate, threaten or control someone.
Behaviour can include:
• Limiting freedom or controlling choices
• Harassing, monitoring and stalking
• Shaming, degrading or humiliating
• Social isolation
• Threats, violence and intimidation
• Emotional, financial or sexual abuse
• Systems abuse, such as making false reports to authorities
It carries a maximum sentence of seven years. The law currently only applies to behaviour after July 2024 towards current or former intimate partners.
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