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Criminalising Controlling and Coercive Behaviour

Traditionally, the criminal law has proscribed activity that results in physical injury to another. By extension, threats of physical harm may also attract criminal liability. For instance, common law assault can occur where there is a threat of imminent violence, even if no physical contact actually occurs. Similarly, the statutory offences of threatening to kill or cause serious injury do not require actual physical injury to the victim. In recent decades, however, there has been a shift towards criminalising the infliction of non-physical harm.England has enacted legislation that criminalises controlling or coercive behaviour in intimate and family relationships, a move which advocates say is the next logical progression in protecting victims of domestic violence. The new law has been hailed as ‘a landmark moment in the UK’s approach to domestic abuse’ because it targets the coercive control at the heart of domestic abuse.