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Leading domestic violence expert calls for the investigation of suicide victims linked to family violence and coercive control.

For a long time, I've been wanting to create a visual representation of the realities of the intentionality of coercive control. Unfortunately, coercive control is still actively mispositioned in practice response as an isolated, non-physical, often minimised dynamic, and as a direct result of this, lethality and risk indicators are missed

Man charged with manslaughter and coercive control charges after driving a woman to suicide through a targeted campaign of domestic abuse

Check out these great family violence resources relating to suicide, family violence statistics, and violence within whānau Māori

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