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This article draws on interviews with survivors, their closest advisors and police to assess uptake of the new 'coercive control' law (s. 76 Serious Crime Act 2015) in England and Wales. It sets out a model of control that it suggests should be used by police to help them take advantage of the new law - a law which could transform the way that domestic abuse is prosecuted in the UK and worldwide.
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This page is a summary of: Seeing What is ‘Invisible in Plain Sight’: Policing Coercive Control, The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, October 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/hojo.12227.
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