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Domestic abuse campaigners welcomed the news around tougher sentencing but also highlighted the low level of conviction rates for coercive control, which was made a criminal offence in the Serious Crime Act 2015.How psychological control led wife to kill
"But wider failings across the Criminal Justice System mean that poor training and investigative practices within policing often lead to coercive control not being identified or understood well. "We need to see more investment in prevention work, including better management of perpetrators and interventions to stop men killing women in the first place."
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