What is coercive control?

by Jennifer Perry

Last year, I helped campaign for a new UK law on Coercive Control. That law was passed in March 2015 and came into force on the 29th of December 2015. While working on the new law, it became clear that what coercive control means isn’t very well understood by victims or the professionals supporting them. We shouldn’t be surprised that victims do not know they’ve been experiencing coercive control, when we are just now getting a law that recognises it. Victims of abuse know that what has been happening to them wasn’t right, but they didn’t understand that it was domestic abuse and now it’s illegal. I’m writing this book for all the women and men who experience the psychological, financial, isolating and monitoring forms of coercive control, so they can understand it and the new law. Educating yourself is the first step in stopping abuse – to go from being a victim to being a survivor.

58 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 23, 2015

Reviews

[LacyReads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short but insightful. I had been through a terribly abusive relationship and this helped me understand a lot of it.

[Kim Young · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent reading to understand this subject in simplistic terms x extremely useful x

I enjoyed reading this book to refresh my memory on the implications of coercive control. Essential for anybody that has been subjected to this abuse. Knowledge is power and it does not minimise this kind of abuse in any way. It helps you understand how this awful trap is played out and how to set yourself free.

[Anastasia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short, easy read but very informative!! I’m sad it was taken off Apple Books 😔 I strongly recommend it !