Coercive Control
Patterns in Crimes, Arrests and Outcomes for a New Domestic Abuse Offence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iain Brennan (0000-0003-2131-1599, University of Hull, corresponding author), Andy Myhill (0000-0003-0805-8728, College of Policing) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 468-483 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azab072 |
| OpenAlex | W3192060547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 15 |
Critics of the criminalization of coercive control warned that the criminal justice system was ill-prepared for a conceptualization of domestic abuse that relies on victim accounts of fear and manipulation rather than on evidence of violence. Using data obtained through Freedom of Information requests to police forces and aggregated police records, this paper presents police force-level and nationwide patterns in recorded crimes, police arrests and crime outcomes for this new crime and shows that, nationally, the number of recorded crimes and arrests rose steadily in its first three years, but there was significant variation in these patterns between police forces. Analysing police outcomes, we demonstrate that coercive control crimes face greater procedural challenges and are far less likely to result in prosecution than domestic abuse crimes in general. We discuss the implications of these trends and findings for the policing and criminalization of coercive control
Conceptualization · Criminal justice · Criminalization · Criminology · Domestic violence · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Computer Science · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology
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A qualitative exploration into staff perceptions of barriers faced by domestic abuse victims in engaging with the criminal justice system in Scotland
Elimination of invisible boundaries of domestic violence tolerance in the criminal law (based on the example of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
Women's Fear and Risk Factors
Responding to ‘image-based domestic abuse’
Who is the victim? Exploring the complexities of misidentification
Going for gold
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on police recorded domestic abuse
The Use of Chemical Control Within Coercive Controlling Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse
Collaboration, risk and ‘just’ outcomes
A genuine one usually sticks out a mile’
Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England
The new coercive control offence in NSW
Cultivating Dependence, Denial, and Self-Blame
Witnessing (Dis)engagement
Justice Work
Online and Offline Stalking Victimisation in the Crime Survey for England and Wales
Measuring domestic violence
A review of domestic violence arrest statistics in a police department using a pro-arrest policy
Aligning policy and law? The creation of a domestic abuse offence incorporating coercive control
Is more law the answer? Seeking justice for victims of intimate partner violence through the reform of legal categories
Coercive control
Evidencing domestic violence*, including behaviour that falls under the new offence of ‘controlling or coercive behaviour’
Measuring Coercive Control
Coercive Control
Service Provider Difficulties in Operationalizing Coercive Control
Policing a new domestic abuse crime
Putting Coercive Control into Practice
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |