In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder

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This book forces us to look at the dangerous, damaging and distorted picture of control/jealousy/possessiveness as love.

she never pretends to be able to explain why these perpetrators end up becoming the people they are though, and she’s very frank about that. The process of escalation is examined in chapter five, with a focus on stalking based on fixation, obsession, unwanted contact and repeated behaviour.As a former police officer, what would you like to see the police do about domestic control and violence? This is a pretty good description of authoritarian bullies who feel justified in murdering their partners. Every four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner – and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic.

She looks at the progress from the intensity of a new relationship, through coercive control and stalking, then (potentially) to murder or suicide. You question the effectiveness of the adversarial system in courts because it places the victim in opposition to the offender.What is Communism if not a history or controlling (and possibly stalking if we include surveillance). And that’s how things are very often argued in court, because if you can argue for crime of passion you will probably reduce your charge from murder to manslaughter.