TY  - SER
AU  - Tolmie, Julia
TI  - Coercive control : : to criminalize or not to criminalize?
PY  - 2017///
PB  - Sage, 
KW  - COERCIVE CONTROL
KW  - CRIMINAL LAW
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - LAW REFORM
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
KW  - UNITED KINGDOM
N1  - Criminology & Criminal Justice, 2018, 18(1): 50-66
N2  - Criminalizing coercive or controlling behaviour in an intimate relationship, as has been done in England and Wales and is proposed in Scotland, has the advantage of offering an offence structure to match the operation and wrong of intimate partner violence. This article raises the question as to whether other jurisdictions should follow suit. It argues that the successful implementation of such an offence may require a complexity of analysis that the criminal justice system is not currently equipped to provide and will require significant reforms in practice and thinking. If it is not successful such an offence could conceivably operate to minimize the criminal justice response to intimate partner violence and be used to charge primary victims. (Author's abstract). This article appears on a special issue of Criminology & Criminal Justice on coercive control - follow the link to see other articles in this issue. Record #5709
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748895817746712
UR  - http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/18/1
ER  -