An expert in domestic violence and abuse explains how you can help those you are worried about.
Caroline Flack leaving Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court where she plead not guilty to assaulting boyfriend Lewis Burton.
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It is important that police forces and the CPS are able to recognise that coercive control and couple violence are different and require different handling.
one in four perpetrators are repeat offenders, yet less than 1% of perpetrators receive a specialist intervention to challenge or change their behaviour.
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Lawyers and jurors need to know what causes people to behave the way they do.
Women who have been victims of domestic abuse may experience depression, anxiety and substance abuse, among other psychological impacts.
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There is a clear link between women who have experienced domestic violence and mental illness. This link needs to be better addressed in mental health services.
The law needs updating – but great care is required when it comes to consent and sadomasochistic sex.
In Myanmar, gender inequality is fed by a deeply held concept called ‘hpon,’ which considers men to be spiritually and morally better than women.
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In Myanmar, spousal abuse is legal and stigma stop most women from reporting sexual violence. A bill championed by feminists but long stalled in Parliament may soon give women their basic rights.
Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944), the film that inspired the now widely used term.
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