Bounce Magazine November 2015
Featuring an exclusive interview with Rick McMurray from Ash, review at Upstairs at Baileys, Bounce wins award, Christmas Shopping Ideas and First Times.
Featuring an exclusive interview with Rick McMurray from Ash, review at Upstairs at Baileys, Bounce wins award, Christmas Shopping Ideas and First Times.
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NOVEMBER <strong>2015</strong> NOVEMBER | ISSUE <strong>2015</strong> #37 | | ISSUE HEALTH #37& WELLBEING<br />
DOMESTIC<br />
VIOLENCE<br />
Changing the Dialogue of Domestic Violence by Min Grob...<br />
Following the success of the 1st Conference on<br />
Coercive Control which was recently held at The<br />
Apex in Bury St Edmunds and which sought<br />
to raise awareness of controlling and coercive<br />
behaviour, a form of domestic violence which will<br />
soon be made illegal under the Serious Crimes<br />
Act <strong>2015</strong>, where do we go from here?<br />
We need to, all of us, start looking at domestic<br />
violence differently. Instead of focussing on<br />
the ‘high risk’ incidences of abuse that result in<br />
physical injury, we need to look at the pattern of<br />
behaviour that makes up coercive control. The<br />
smaller incidences that, of their own, stay under<br />
the radar but, when viewed collectively, form<br />
a very definite pattern of the abuser trying to<br />
undermine, isolate and subjugate.<br />
We need to start looking beyond what is being<br />
presented.<br />
Two scenarios:<br />
Police are called to a domestic incident. The wife<br />
is ‘hysterical’ the husband is calm. Who is the<br />
perpetrator?<br />
A woman goes to her GP soon after birth and<br />
asks for the contraceptive pill. Does she want to<br />
resume sexual relations or is she being subjected<br />
to marital rape?<br />
We need to start challenging this belief that<br />
domestic violence is a private matter. It is not. We<br />
need to start speaking up. More next month....<br />
FIND OUT MORE:<br />
Conference on Coercive Control 2 will be<br />
held on 4th February 2016 at the Theatre<br />
Royal Bury St Edmunds<br />
www.coercivecontrol.co.uk<br />
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