Overview
Presents unique perspectives on how the criminal justice system can respond to non-physical harm
Combines academic and practitioner views on the criminalization of non-physical family violence
Includes reviews of jurisdiction that have have criminalized non-physical family violence
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About this book
The book considers the new offences that have been introduced in England and Wales (controlling or coercive behavior), Ireland (controlling behavior) and Scotland (domestic abuse). It invites consideration of three key questions: Do conventional criminal laws adequately regulate non-physical abuse? Is the criminal law an appropriate mechanism for responding to the coercive control of family members? And if a new and distinctive offence is warranted, what is the optimal form of that offence?
This ground-breaking work is essential reading for researchers and practitioners interested in coercive control and the proper role of the criminal law as a mechanism for regulating family violence.
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Keywords
- Criminalizing Non-Physical Family Violence
- Family Violence
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Abuse
- Controlling and Coercive Behaviour
- Psychological Abuse
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Justice
- Scotland Domestic Abuse Act
- England Serious Crime Act
- Tasmania Family Violence Act
- Emotional Abuse
- Criminalisation
- Economic Abuse and Family Violence Across Cultures
- Non-physical Abuse
- Coercive Control
- violence and crime
- gender, sexuality and law
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The Harms and Wrongs of Non-Physical Abuse
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New Initiatives
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A Way Forward?
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul McGorrery is a PhD candidate at Deakin Law School, and is an admitted lawyer in both Australia and New York, USA. He graduated from La Trobe University with a BLS and an LLB, and graduated magna cum laude with an LLM from Temple University in the United States. His research focuses primarily on criminal law, family violence and sentencing. Paul has worked as a prosecutor with the Office of Public Prosecutions in Melbourne, and has taught law and criminology with a number of universities. He is currently a senior legal policy adviser at the Sentencing Advisory Council in Victoria
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Criminalising Coercive Control
Book Subtitle: Family Violence and the Criminal Law
Editors: Marilyn McMahon, Paul McGorrery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0653-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0652-9Published: 29 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0655-0Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0653-6Published: 28 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 260
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminal Justice, Common Family Law, Violence and Crime, Gender, Sexuality and Law