Domestic abuse isn’t always physical violence. It can also encompass coercive control – a pattern of controlling, threatening and coercive behaviour. If your partner is acting in the following ways, you could be a victim of coercive control. We are here to help.
- Isolating a person from their friends and family
- Depriving them of their basic needs
- Monitoring their time
- Monitoring a person via online communication tools or using spyware
- Taking control over aspects of their everyday life, such as where they can go, who they can see, what to wear and when they can sleep
- Depriving them access to support services, such as specialist support or medical services
- Disclosing their medical conditions without consent
- Repeatedly putting them down such as telling them they are worthless
- Enforcing rules and activity which humiliate, degrade or dehumanise the victim
- Forcing the victim to take part in criminal activity such as shoplifting, neglect or abuse of children to encourage self-blame and prevent disclosure to authorities
- Financial abuse including control of finances or benefits, such as only allowing a person a punitive allowance
- Threatening to hurt or kill
- Threatening to harm a child
- Threatening to reveal or publish private information (e.g. threatening to ‘out’ someone)
- Threatening to hurt or physically harming a family pet
- Assault
- Criminal damage (such as destruction of household goods)
- Preventing a person from having access to transport or from working
- Preventing a person from being able to attend school, college or University
- Family ‘dishonour’
- Reputational damage
- Disclosing sexual orientation
There are measures you can take if you think you’re a victim of coercive control. B P Collins is here to help.
