Last year, I helped campaign for a new UK law on Coercive Control. That law was passed in March 2015 and came into force on the 29th of December 2015.
While working on the new law, it became clear that what coercive control means isn’t very well understood by victims or the professionals supporting them. We shouldn’t be surprised that victims do not know they’ve been experiencing coercive control, when we are just now getting a law that recognises it.
Victims of abuse know that what has been happening to them wasn’t right, but they didn’t understand that it was domestic abuse and now it’s illegal.
I’m writing this book for all the women and men who experience the psychological, financial, isolating and monitoring forms of coercive control, so they can understand it and the new law.
Educating yourself is the first step in stopping abuse – to go from being a victim to being a survivor.
While working on the new law, it became clear that what coercive control means isn’t very well understood by victims or the professionals supporting them. We shouldn’t be surprised that victims do not know they’ve been experiencing coercive control, when we are just now getting a law that recognises it.
Victims of abuse know that what has been happening to them wasn’t right, but they didn’t understand that it was domestic abuse and now it’s illegal.
I’m writing this book for all the women and men who experience the psychological, financial, isolating and monitoring forms of coercive control, so they can understand it and the new law.
Educating yourself is the first step in stopping abuse – to go from being a victim to being a survivor.
