in rural Australia, digital coercive control can be inescapable

  • Written by: Bridget Harris, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Domestic and family violence perpetrators commonly use technology such as phones and other devices as a weapon to control and entrap victims and survivors, alongside other forms of abuse. This “digital coercive control” is not bound to a particular location and can follow targets anywhere, any time they access devices or...

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