Criminalising Coercive Control

Challenges for the Implementation of Northern Ireland's Domestic Abuse Offence
Herausgeber: Mcquigg, Ronagh; Bettinson, Vanessa

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on experiences from the other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which may be faced in implementing Northern Irelandâ s new domestic abuse offence.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 142mm x 224mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781032384870
• ISBN-10: 1032384875
• Artikelnr.: 69119822

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Bettinson is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She researches coercive control in criminal law and is particularly interested in the creation and implementation of coercive control offences and embedding coercive control understandings within defence frameworks. Ronagh McQuigg is a reader in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, UK. She holds an LLB with First Class Honours, an LLM with Distinction and a PhD, and she is a qualified solicitor. Her research interests focus in particular on domestic abuse, and she teaches in the areas of family law and property law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Vanessa Bettinson and Ronagh McQuigg
2. Introducing a Criminal Offence of Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland:
Comparative Insights into Criminalising Coercive Control
Vanessa Bettinson and Ronagh McQuigg
3. Understanding and Responding to Coercive Control: Lessons Learned from
England and Wales
Charlotte Barlow
4. The Justice Challenge for Policing Northern Ireland: Training Police
Officers in the Law of Control.
Rob Ewin
5. Prosecuting Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland: The Challenges of the
Trial Process
Jeremy Robson
6. What Might 'Successful' Coercive Control Prosecutions Look Like?
Antonia Porter
7. Taking Learnings from Other Jurisdictions on Supporting Victims and
Survivors of Coercive Control
Sonya McMullan