WCRS and Women's Aid created ads that reveal the hidden effects of
coercive control using the displacement effect.
Not exact matches
A most particular threat to the human rights project is the
coercive use of foreign aid and other international programs in order to advance alleged rights related to procreation, population
control, and the independence of children from their parents (in the name of «children's rights»).
Many are reminded of abusive church members who have
used love as
coercive leverage to garner
control and power.
I understand that the phrase «God loves you too much to leave you as you are» can be and has been
used in abusive,
coercive and
controlling ways.
Divorced parents are also prone to
use more
coercive and
controlling behaviors.
Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority
control of the government (e.g. excessive
use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of
coercive government
control.
She said new powers to tackle domestic abuse, including
controlling or
coercive behaviour, were effective but were «not being
used anywhere near as systematically as they could be».
Dating Abuse is defined as a pattern of
coercive behavior in which one person attempts to
control another through threats or actual
use of physical violence, sexual assault, and verbal or psychological abuse.
As the La Crosse plan attests, and as
controlled - choice options based on race (such as that in
use in Boston) confirm, unless neighborhoods are economically integrated, the only way to facilitate desegregation is through some
coercive element, such as quotas.
We also have a problem with the
use in the press release of such emotive language («the threat of
coercive takeover or
control tactics»).
Courts and politicians and bureaucrats and people who call themselves scientists, are now
using 300 year predictions of doom to justify presposterous plans to
control global climate change and plan the future of mankind, and to impose their
coercive schemes over all of our lives and properties.
Divorced parents are also prone to
use more
coercive and
controlling behaviors.
Although research findings on prevalence are inconclusive, they generally find that women and men report similar levels of violence when the contexts, motives and consequences are not considered.6 When they are considered, studies assessing IPV perpetrated by men compared to women often report gender differences regarding the types of violence, reasons for the violence, context in which the violence occurs and consequences of the violence.6, 7 For example, studies assessing differences in IPV find men's violence against women to be more severe, threatening and controlling8 — 10 and involve longer - lasting victimisation, fear of bodily injury or death, more injuries and more adverse health effects.5, 11, 12 It has also been found that women tend to
use physical violence out of anger, not being able to get the partner's attention or in self - defence and retaliation, 11 whereas men often
use it as a means to exercise
coercive control.13, 14
Under s. 76 of the U.K.'s Serious Crimes Act,
controlling or
coercive behaviour is defined as causing someone to fear that violence will be
used against them on at least two occasions, or generating serious alarm or distress that has a substantial effect on their usual day - to - day activities.
The discussion about «one partner seek [ing] to
control the other through the
use of abusive patterns or behaviors that operate at a variety of levels - emotional, psychological, and physical» (p. 8) will lead the DV community to focusing on the
coercive control aspects, while not noticing the more dangerous family dynamic approach on which most mental health professionals will focus.
The present study suggests that this acceptance may have been premature... Results from this study indicate that the
use of the IT / SCV typology does not consistently work better than a simple measure of the breadth of violent acts
used by respondents» husbands to predict negative outcomes of partner violence victimization... [and] both of these measurement strategies fail to examine the general effect of husbands»
control... The preliminary empirical evidence reported here suggests that these victims of
coercive control are an unrecognized category of victims... IPV researchers should focus on the dynamics of
coercive control in intimate abuse whether or not this
control occurs in the context of physical violence.
The meta - analytic evidence pointing to persistent pursuit as a gendered behavior is reviewed, and
coercive control theory is
used to explain gender differences.
Coercive control practices of authoritarian parents as well as nondemanding practices of unengaged parents and to some extent of democratic parents were related to more negative parent — child relationship indicators than was the extensive
use of firm / confrontive
control (rational - demanding) by directive parents or authoritative parents.