Coercive Control

Question 1

Define coercive control

Answer 1

A person A commits an offence if
A repeatedly or continuously engages in behaviour towards another person B that is coercive or controlling and at the time of the behaviour A and B are personally connected the behaviour has serious effect on B and A knows or ought to now that the behaviour will have a serious effect on B

Question 2

Section 76 serious crime act 2015

Answer 2

A range of acts designed to make a person subordinate & or dependent by isolating them from source of support exploiting their resources & capacities for personal gain, depriving them of the means needed for independence, resistance & escape & regulating their everyday behaviour

Question 3

Coercive control behaviour

Answer 3

Make the victim
Fear or actual violence
Isolating
Dependent

Question 4

Defences

Answer 4

A believe to be acting in the best interests of B

The behaviour in all circumstances was reasonable

Question 5

Major tactics of coercive control

Answer 5

Intimidation 
Control
Violence
Surveillance
Degradation& humiliation

Question 6

Duluth power & control wheel

Sexual violence physical

Answer 6

Using coercion threats
Using intimidation 
Using emotional abuse
Using isolating
Minimising, denying, blaming
Using children
Using gender privilege
Using economic abuse
Power and control

Question 7

The entrapment process

Answer 7

Stage 1- grooming/ conditioning
Stage 2- normalisation
Stage 3- entrapment

Question 8

6 stages of leaving

Answer 8

1. Managing the situation
2. Distortion of perspective/ reality
3. Defining the abuse
4. Re- evaluating the relationship
5. Ending the relationship
6. Ending the abuse

Question 9

The nature of abusive behaviour

Answer 9

1. Biological
2. Individual or pathological
3. Provocation
4. External pressures such as alcohol, poverty, unemployment the weather