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Criminalizing coercive control may seem like a good idea, but could it further victimize women?

By Eden Hoffer, PhD Student in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University
C. Nadine Wathen, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Mobilizing Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence, Western University
Like mandatory charging policies, criminalizing coercive control could turn out to be harmful to the victim-survivors they were intended to protect.The Conversation


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