Sexual assault in relationships requires entirely separate systems of reporting, says professor who coined term ‘coercive control’
make coercive control a crime
Prof Evan Stark and his wife, Anne, began sheltering domestic violence victims in their home in the early 1970s. On Friday, federal and state attorneys general will discuss developing national principles on coercive control – which involves patterns of behaviour that can include physical, sexual, psychological and financial abuse – at a meeting in Melbourne.draft law to criminalise coercive control
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