Coercive control offence to attract seven years jail under draft NSW law | LucyCormack
People convicted of coercive control in intimate partner relationships would be jailed for up to seven years under landmark laws to criminalise the behaviour.
“Coercive control is complex, is insidious and causes untold harm for its victims,” he said, adding that consultation was critical to avoiding overreach. The government announced its decision to formally criminalise coercive control in December as part of its response to a parliamentary inquiry.The inquiry heard confronting evidence about repressive control that is imposed on thousands of women in domestic abusive relationships.Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse involving patterns of behaviour that can be physical, sexual, psychological, emotional or financial.
“These reforms are crucial to ensuring that we recognise in law a pattern of behaviour which is identified as a precursor to domestic violence deaths,” she said.Stakeholders have previously raised concerns that legislation would be challenged in proving a pattern of behaviour and that perpetrators of violence could use laws to make vexatious complaints.
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