Stalking and coercive control have a lot in common. Stalking is often imagined as something obvious, extreme, or easy to identify. Someone following you or watching. But in reality, it can be much less obvious.
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Stalking, Coercive Control, and Predatory Behaviour
It’s an uncomfortable feeling to know you’re being watched or monitored.
More alarmingly is the ignorance surrounding stalking, coercive control and homicides. Criminal Analyst, Laura Richards (an ex. Scotland Yard officer dealing with DV and homicides) has indentified how linked stalking and coercive control are.
And she also emphasises how perpetrators have an entitled mentality and feeling of “ownership” over their victims.
She goes even further, and believes that stalkers, coercive controllers and domestic violence offenders should be treated the same as other serial criminals and their history be made known to members of the public who may be their next victim.
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Stalking, Coercive Control, and Predatory Behaviour
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