COERCIVE CONTROL AND THE NEED TO EXPAND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT
When is a crime not a crime? When the victim is not in an ‘intimate relationship’ with their abuser. In Ireland, coercive control became a criminal offence in 2019 with the enactment of The Domestic Violence Act 2018. For those working with victims of this insidious, debilitating, and manipulative form of abuse, this was a […]
