...Technologies are readily weaponised by perpetrators of domestic and family violence to harass, monitor, restrict, coerce, and control targets. Awareness of these practices is growing, but less explored is how digital coercive control can potentially signal risk of femicide (and filicide). Emphasis...

... and, in the context of patterns and dynamics of abuse, digital coercive control strategies are personalized by perpetrators and extend and exacerbate “real-world” violence. Digital coercive control is unique because of its spacelessness and the ease, speed, and identity-shielding which technology affords. Victim...