Opinion: Anyone who thinks the abuse of women isn’t baked into our culture need only sit back and listen closely to a few of our greatest hits | bairdjulia
Anyone who thinks the abuse of women isn’t baked into our culture need only sit back and listen closely to a few of our greatest hits., by the Spinners . The lyrics reveal a classic case of a lying, cheating emotional abuser trying to claw his way back into his partner’s affections: “I used to love to make you cry. It made me feel like a man inside.”: “I need you, babe, to put through the shredder in front of my friends ... To beat to a pulp on Saturday night.
But now in NSW some momentum is beginning to build to criminalise coercive control, as has now been done throughout the United Kingdom. In short, the legislation is needed because currently the policing of perpetrators of domestic violence is centred on “incidents” – assaults or damaging of property, not of long-term patterns of abusive behaviour.
Speakman has said he has “no immediate plans” to bring in new laws but is currently investigating the ways coercive control has worked in other jurisdictions, particularly in Scotland, which were introduced after those in England and Wales and are considered the “gold standard”. The initial signs are encouraging: in its first year, 1000 charges were laid and 96 per cent of those were prosecuted.
There is a defence under this proposed legislation too that says people won’t be sanctioned just for “unreasonable behaviour”. People may well have outbursts, bad days, make stupid mistakes. What these laws are about is capturing far more pernicious, pervasive and potentially fatal behaviours.
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