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  • Criminology
  • Public Health

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  • COVID-19 lockdowns created conditions conducive to increased domestic and family violence (DFV), especially intimate partner violence (IPV).
  • IPV encompasses physical, emotional, psychological, financial abuse, and coercive controlling behaviors.
  • Lockdown measures facilitated perpetrators' ability to exert coercive control through isolation and monitoring.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the challenges in measuring coercive control within intimate partner violence.
  • To discuss the criminalization of coercive control in New South Wales (NSW).
  • To analyze the impact of COVID-19 lockdown conditions on coercive controlling behaviors.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of DFV and IPV.
  • Analysis of media reports and awareness campaigns on IPV.
  • Discussion of legal and policy challenges in addressing coercive control.
  • Examination of the operationalization and measurement of coercive control.

Main Results:

  • Coercive control is difficult to operationalize, measure, and address in law, policy, and interventions.
  • Media focus on physical violence overshadows the prevalence and impact of coercive control.
  • COVID-19 lockdowns exacerbated conditions for coercive controlling behaviors.

Conclusions:

  • Measuring and addressing coercive control presents significant challenges for the DFV sector.
  • Criminalization of coercive control requires careful consideration of measurement and intervention strategies.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need for better understanding and response to coercive control in IPV.