Suchergebnisse

Part 1: The Harms And Wrongs Of Non-Physical Abuse -- Chapter 1. Criminalising Coercive Control: An Introduction (Marilyn McMahon) -- Chapter 2. The 'Coercive Control Framework': Making Law Work for Women (Evan Stark) -- Chapter 3. Economic Abuse and Family Violence Across Cultures: Gendering Money and Assets Through Coercive Control (Supriya Singh) -- Chapter 4. Coercive Control and Intimate Partner Homicide (Danielle Tyson) -- Part 2: Fixing A 'Gap' In The Law? -- Chapter 5. An Alternative Means of Prosecuting Domestic Abuse: Are Stalking Laws a Neglected Resource? (Marilyn McMahon) -- Chapter 6. Evaluating Criminalisation as a Strategy in Relation to Non-Physical Family Violence (Julia Quilter) -- Part 3: New Initiatives -- Chapter 7. Ahead of Their Time? The Offences of Economic and Emotional Abuse in Tasmania, Australia (Kerryne Barwick) -- Chapter 8. From Social Construct to Legal Innovation: The Offence of Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in England and Wales (Cassandra Wiener) -- Chapter 9. The Making of the 'New Gold Standard': The Scottish Experience: The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 (Marsha Scott) -- Part 4: A Way Forward? -- Chapter 10. A Comparative Evaluation of Offences: Criminalising Abusive Behaviour in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Tasmania (Vanessa Bettinson) -- Chapter 11. Coercive Control as the Context for Intimate Partner Violence: The Challenge for the Legal System (Jane Wangmann) -- Chapter 12. Alternative Constructions of a Family Violence Offence (Heather Douglas).

Digital technologies are increasingly being used within the context of domestic and family violence (DFV) to facilitate coercive and controlling behaviours – also known as digital coercive control (DCC). Drawing on the perspectives of a small sample of nine DFV practitioners and scholarly experts, this article examines the barriers victim/survivors of DCC encounter as they seek help in Victoria, Australia. We find that DCC has distinct impacts on victim/survivors who are socially and geographically isolated. DFV support services also experience a range of challenges in detecting and responding to DCC, including in risk assessment and management, highlighting a requirement for further training of frontline workers to better respond to DCC.

This paper reports a study investigating the experiences of people who perceived that they had suffered a health or medical care injury in Victoria, Australia. A particular focus was their experience with the process of seeking compensation. The research strategy involved a preliminary questionnaire and in‐depth interviewing of the participants and, where possible, their families. We describe the type of injury reported by the participants, experiences with health care providers and lawyers and attitudes to the current system of compensation. The severity of injury sustained by these participants was often severe, involving permanent incapacity and psychological distress. We conclude that the quest for recompense is fraught with difficulties for claimants. The present system of compensation neither provides adequate financial compensation nor ‐ even where claimants are successful ‐ acknowledgement of the legitimacy of their claim.