BBC: Psychological abuse 'should be a made crime'

Submitted by jkmerr on Thu, 2014-03-06 00:16

Article here. Excerpt:

'Psychological abuse should be made a crime in England and Wales in order to save more victims of domestic violence, campaigners have said.

The groups, including Women's Aid, say current legislation focuses too much on specific incidents, such as an assault.

They say the law fails to take into account power and control, which are the essence of domestic abuse.

The Home Office said it would carefully consider the idea after a police review of domestic abuse was completed.

Women's Aid, the Sara Charlton Charitable Foundation and stalking advice service Paladin have urged the government to criminalise "coercive control", patterns of abusive behaviour and causing psychological harm, in order to make it easier to prove long-running abuse.'

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In fact it is a crime in France but,as usual men can't pop down the cop shop and declare that the mrs is being abusive to him,they'll just get laughed at--maybe we will have to open a new agency---the nags head or something.
Have you been nagged today,come in,and tell mommy all about it.

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Submitted by saracen395 on Thu, 2014-03-06 19:56

" in order to save more victims of domestic violence"
Don't they mean "in order to *create* more victims of DV"? Rates of violence of every kind are dropping, worldwide. Without creating new categories of DV, these groups face the fearsome prospect of having to get a real job.

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Submitted by MrWombat on Sat, 2014-03-08 06:20