UK: Domestic abuse offence could cover emotional as well as physical harm

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2014-08-30 15:05

Story here. Excerpt:

'A new criminal offence of domestic abuse could be introduced to include emotional and psychological harm inflicted by a partner within a relationship.

The government launched a consultation on Wednesday to look at strengthening the law by explicitly stating that domestic abuse covers coercive and controlling behaviour as well as physical harm.
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The consultation document says that police fail to see abuse, particularly in its nonviolent form, as a serious crime, adding: "Creating a specific offence of domestic abuse may send a clear, consistent message to frontline agencies that nonviolent control in an intimate relationship is criminal.

"Explicitly capturing this in legislation may also help victims identify the behaviour they are suffering as wrong and encourage them to report it, and cause perpetrators to rethink their controlling behaviour."'

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has shown that u.s. immigration officials are now allowing illegal (female) aliens to claim past mental abuse as a reason for immigration approval. sweet. and again, whatever a woman claims is gospel in bizarro world.

the criminally insane really are running the asylum.

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Submitted by daveinga on Mon, 2014-09-01 02:07