Siobhan Weare is a Lecturer in Lancaster University Law School. Her research interests are focused in the areas of criminal law and criminal justice - currently exploring the socio-legal responses to women who commit serious offences, including homicide and sexual violence.
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‘Domestic abuse is everyone’s problem’: why criminalising coercive control just isn’t enough
Following their consultation ‘strengthening the law on domestic abuse’, the government plans to introduce a law on domestic abuse which criminalises ‘coercive control.’