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Coercive behaviour Controlling behaviour
(1)A person (A) commits an offence if—
(a)A repeatedly or continuously engages in behaviour towards another person (B) that is controlling or coercive,
(b)at the time of the behaviour, A and B are personally connected,
(c)the behaviour has a serious effect on B, and
(d)A knows or ought to know that the behaviour will have a serious effect on B.
(2)A and B are “personally connected” if—
(a)A is in an intimate personal relationship with B, or
(b)A and B live together and—
(i)they are members of the same family, or
(ii)they have previously been in an intimate personal relationship with each other.
(4)A’s behaviour has a “serious effect” on B if—
(a)it causes B to fear, on at least two occasions, that violence will be used against B, or
(b)it causes B serious alarm or distress which has a substantial adverse effect on B’s usual day-to-day activities
(8)In proceedings for an offence under this section it is a defence for A to show that—
(a)in engaging in the behaviour in question, A believed that he or she was acting in B’s best interests, and
(b)the behaviour was in all the circumstances reasonable.
Legislation.gov.uk
Section 76 Serious Crimes Act 2015
(slide 5) Everyone’s Business: Improving the Police Response to Domestic Abuse, HMIC 2014
https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/improving-the-police-response-to-domestic-abuse.pdf
(slide 15 & 18) Coercive Control, BBC Radio 5 Live, April 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mv17j
(slide 17) Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate of Family Relationship, Home Office, 2015 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/482528/Controlling_or_coercive_behaviour_-_statutory_guidance.pdf
https://www.womensaid.org.uk/16-days-coercive-control-abusive-behaviour-in-teenage-relationships/
Women's Aid (Saturday 5th December 2015)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4768400/Boyfriend-one-convicted-coercive-control.html
Keiligh Baker for Mail Online 7th August 2017
http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/controlling_or_coercive_behaviour/
CPS.GOV.UK
Reviewed 30/06/2017
https://www.lsbu.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/9335/family-intimate-relationships-sociological-families-research-working-paper.pdf
Family and Intimate Relationships: A review of the Sociological Research : Val Gillies
June 2003, Published by London South Bank University
http://www.virginia.edu/vpr/irb/sbs/resources_guide_risk_define_types.html#Economic
Institutional Review Board for Social and Behavioural Sciences; University of Virginia
Published 26/03/2012
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