Abusive power and control
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Abusive power and control (also controlling behavior and coercive control) is behavior used by an
Overview
The
Personality disorders
In the study of
- Individuals with manipulateothers into complying with their wishes.
- Individuals with borderline personality disorder tend to display black-and-white thinking and are sensitive to others' attitudes toward them. Being so averse to rejection may give them motivation to gain compliance in order to control perceptions of others.
- Individuals with histrionic personality disorder need to be the center of attention; and in turn, draw people in so they may use (and eventually dispose of) their relationship.
- Individuals with narcissists need to control the behavior of others – particularly that of their children seen as extensions of themselves.[11]
- Individuals with authoritarian, and malevolent. They may seek positions in which they are able to exert power over others, such as a judge, army sergeant, or psychiatrist who misuse their positions of power to control or brutalize others. For instance, a psychiatrist may institutionalize a patient by misusing mental health legislation.[12]
Law
In England and Wales, the Serious Crime Act 2015 created a criminal offence for controlling or coercive behavior in an intimate or family relationship.[13][14] For the purposes of this offence, the coercive behaviour must have been engaged in "repeatedly or continuously".[15] Another element of the offence is that it must have had, or have, a "serious effect"[16] on the victim. One way this can be proved, is that the coercive behaviour can be shown to have caused the victim to fear violence on at least two occasions, or for it to have had, or have, a "substantial adverse effect on the victims’ day to day activities".[17] The prosecution should be able to show that there was intent to control or coerce the targeted person in some manner.[18] In 2019, the UK government made teaching about what coercive control was a mandatory part of the education syllabus on relationships.[19]
In 2019, Ireland enacted the Domestic Violence Act 2018, which allowed for the practice of coercive control to be identifiable based upon its effects on the victim. On this basis, it was defined as 'any evidence of deterioration in the physical, psychological, or emotional welfare of the applicant or a dependent person which is caused directly by fear of the behaviour of the respondent.'.[20]
In the United States, to assist in preventing and stopping domestic violence against children, there have been laws put into place to mandate report in specific professions, such as teacher, doctor, or care provider, any suspected abuse happening in the home.[21]
Family law is mostly under the jurisdiction of state and local governments in the United States. As such, states are unequally tackling coercive control through legislation.
See also
- Accumulation by dispossession
- Adult-to-adult narcissistic abuse
- Abuse of power
- Battered person syndrome
- Blackmail
- Bullying
- Child grooming
- Coercion
- Control of time in power relationships
- Control freak
- Cycle of violence
- Dispossession, oppression, and depression
- Divide and rule
- Domestic violence
- Economic abuse
- Elder abuse
- Emotional blackmail
- Enabling
- Expressions of dominance
- Extortion
- Human trafficking
- Institutional abuse
- Intimidation
- Intimate partner violence
- Intimate relationship
- Isolation to facilitate abuse
- Love bombing
- Mind control
- Mind games
- Minimisation (psychology)
- Narcissism in the workplace
- Narcissistic parent
- Oppression
- Personal boundaries
- Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America
- Protection racket
- Psychological abuse
- Psychological manipulation
- Psychopathy in the workplace
- Serial killer
- Sharp power
- Silent treatment
- Struggle session
- Victim blaming
- Victim playing
- Workplace bullying
- Zersetzung
References
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- David M. Buss. Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Nature. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010. ISBN 978-0073370682
- ^ "Personality disorders - Symptoms and causes". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
- ^ Rappoport, Alan, Ph. D."Co-Narcissism: How We Adapt to Narcissism". The Therapist, 2005 Archived 2015-08-11 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Adrian Raine; José Sanmartin
- ^ Statutory guidance framework: controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship 05 Dec 2015 gov.uk
- ^ "University graduate from Poole admits controlling and coercive behaviour" Daily Echo 27 Mar 2019
- ^ Statutory guidance framework: controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship 05 Dec 2015 gov.uk
- ^ Statutory guidance framework: controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship 05 Dec 2015 gov.uk
- ^ Statutory guidance framework: controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship 05 Dec 2015 gov.uk
- ^ "Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship". CPS.gov.uk. Text was copied from this source, which is available under an Open Government Licence v2.0. © Crown copyright.
- ^ Price, Hannah (27 October 2020). "Coercive control: 'I was 16 and thought it was normal'". BBC. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
- ^ Baumann, J.D., Mark. "Coercive control and emotional abuse illegal in U.K., France, Ireland –and Clallam?". Clallam County Bar Clallam County lawyers & legal news. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
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External links
- Sarah Strudwick (Nov 16, 2010) Dark Souls – Mind Games, Manipulation and Gaslighting
Juripop, Domestic and Sexual Violence (Free Training Programs)[1]
West Island Women Shelter (2020), Coercive Control: Screening Questionnaire and Evaluation Grid[2]
- ^ "Domestic and Sexual Violence: Free Training Programs". Juripop. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
- ^ "Coercive Control: Screening Questionnaire and Evaluation Grid" (PDF). West Island Women's Shelter. 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2023.