Coercive control is a misunderstood and dangerous pattern.And it can affect anyone.And it kills.But it’s not always obvious and it can be very difficult to identify.Through our research where we looked at over 400 cases of intimate partner homicide, we were able to identify a recurring pattern of escalating risk and threat And we call this pattern – The Homicide Timeline The Women behind the changeProf Jane Monckton Smith who developed the Homicide Timeline frameworkBarrister Sarah Ellis who is forensic criminologist and host of Control and the Law podcast Forensic approachIt offers a forensic approach as it tracks rising risk and threat.Treating coercive control as the criminal pattern that it is and learning how and why controlling people behave in the ways that they do and why they be becoming more dangerous. We can change the way we change the way we think about domestic abuse, coercive control and stalkingWe can do better protecting victims.We can do better holding controlling people to account.#homicidetimeline #8stages #coercivecontrol #domesticabuse #intimatepartnerhomicide

Homicide Timeline

Kyle Clifford given whole-life order for killing Louise Hunt, her sister Hannah and their mother, Carol