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  1. Jul 27, 2023 · Section 1(3)(c) of the 2021 Act created a statutory definition of domestic abuse which encompasses a range of abusive behaviours, including controlling or coercive behaviour.

  2. Dec 5, 2015 · A repeatedly or continuously engages in behaviour towards another person, B, that is controlling or coercive. at the time of the behaviour, A and B are personally connected. the behaviour...

  3. This chapter provides a discussion on the widely held view that law — positive law — is essentially coercive. It offers an analysis of the concept of coercion, and then discusses the questions of whether law does actually, and whether law must tautologically, involve coercion in any of the senses analysed. This chapter starts by reflecting ...

  4. Dec 16, 2018 · This article reviews the background, introduction, and critical response to new criminal offenses of coercive control in England/Wales and Scotland. How the new Scottish offense is implemented will determine whether it can overcome the shortcomings of the English law.

    • Evan Stark, Marianne Hester
    • 2019
  5. May 16, 2021 · We say that a legal system is coercive when “there are laws which provide for the use or application of coercive measures” (Lamond 2000, 41). But we also say that a legal system is coercive when the effects of its laws, institutions, and features are coercive (ibid.).

    • Lucas Miotto
    • 2021
  6. 142–157. Published: August 2006. Split View. Annotate. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter draws attention to issues regarding law: one is that there are several other types of law aside from state law, and the other is that law has the tendency to become coercive.

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  8. Sep 12, 2023 · In England and Wales, the Serious Crimes Act 2015, and in Scotland, the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018, have supported a more holistic understanding of the dynamics of abuse and the means by which coercion and control are deployed to cement and supplant perpetrators’ violence.

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