https://www.policyforum.net/should-australia-criminalise-coercive-control/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Tue, 10 Nov 2020 03:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://www.policyforum.net/should-australia-criminalise-coercive-control/#comment-12713 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 03:49:38 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=46191#comment-12713 I work in a specialist support service for women from CALD backgrounds experiencing DFV and I concur wholeheartedly with your research. We support a growing number of women who have called police for help while they were being abused, but ended up with a DVO against them (and tell us that they will never contact police again). Interpreters are rarely used and the person using violence is often more proficient in English , as they work outside the home, so the woman’s voice is not heard. I also believe there would be unintended consequences for women, if coercive control was criminalised.

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