Critics of the criminalization of coercive control warned that the criminal justice system was ill-prepared for a conceptualization of domestic abuse that relies on victim accounts of fear and manipulation rather than on evidence of violence. Using data obtained through Freedom of Information requests to police forces and aggregated police records, this paper presents police force-level and nationwide patterns in recorded crimes, police arrests and crime outcomes for this new crime and shows that, nationally, the number of recorded crimes and arrests rose steadily in its first three years, but there was significant variation in these patterns between police forces. Analysing police outcomes, we demonstrate that coercive control crimes face greater procedural challenges and are far less likely to result in prosecution than domestic abuse crimes in general. We discuss the implications of these trends and findings for the policing and criminalization of coercive control.

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强制控制：新的家庭虐待罪行的犯罪、逮捕和结果模式

对强制控制定罪的批评者警告说，刑事司法系统对家庭虐待的概念化准备不足，这种概念化依赖于受害者对恐惧和操纵的描述，而不是暴力证据。使用通过向警察部队提出信息自由请求获得的数据和汇总的警察记录，本文介绍了警察部队级别和全国范围内记录的犯罪、警察逮捕和这种新犯罪的犯罪结果的模式，并表明，在全国范围内，记录在案的犯罪数量逮捕人数在头三年稳步上升，但警察部队之间的这些模式存在显着差异。分析警察结果，我们证明，与一般的家庭虐待犯罪相比，强制控制犯罪面临更大的程序挑战，并且被起诉的可能性要小得多。我们讨论了这些趋势和调查结果对强制控制的警务和刑事定罪的影响。