'The important thing to think about is technology is just another means of perpetrating abuse, and we haven't understood the extent and nature of how it's being used as yet another form of control.' — ANROWS CEO Padma Raman.
One in four Australians will use technology to perpetrate abuse in their lifetimes, according to new research, which found gaining or maintaining control to be the main motivation.
ANROWS published two new research reports on Thursday, completing a national study that explored the extent and nature of, along with responses to, TFA in Australia. While it can occur in a range of contexts, about one in three victims and survivors reported their most recent experience occurred in a current or former intimate partner relationship.
The most common types were monitoring and controlling behaviours , emotional abuse and threats , and harassing behaviours . Every form of media I blocked him on, he'd find another way to contact me or make a new identity to contact me. Some of it was to tell me I'm a horrible person, I destroyed his life. The next one will be, 'You're my soulmate, I love you, the love of my life, can we please just talk, can we please just ...
In intimate partner relationships, perpetrators mainly identified feeling angry and upset, citing a loss of control at the end of a relationship and losing daily contact with the victim and survivor. Of the respondents who reported experiencing TFA, many also reported the same perpetrator of their most recent incident had engaged in at least one form of additional abuse against them.
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