- The red flags of domestic violence are not always physical.
- Many killings and serious assaults in a domestic setting are preceded not by physical violence but by other insidious acts including isolation, threats, monitoring, humiliation and control. These can collectively be referred to as coercive control.
- Research repeatedly suggests that coercive control patterns are the best predictor of later episodes of severe domestic violence.
- While mainland Australia is yet to create a specific offence criminalising coercive control, England, Wales and more recently Scotland have done so and are now actively conducting criminal prosecutions in relation to this ground-breaking new offence.
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