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Intimate partner violence is a growing issue in Canada. According to Statistics Canada, there were 114,132 police-reported victims of intimate partner violence in 2021, marking the seventh consecutive year of increased rates of violence.
However, while the issue is of growing concern, experts warn that police responses are failing victims and potentially causing more harm.
Today in The Conversation Canada, we have two stories about this issue.
N. Zoe Hilton from the University of Toronto and Sandy Jung from MacEwan University outline what police and academics can do to tackle the issue of coercive control. This is a pattern of behaviour that undermines and intimidates a person and traps them in and abusive relationship.
Kendra Nixon and Ashley Haller from the University of Manitoba discuss how poor policing practices are harming 2SLGBTQ+ survivors of intimate partner violence. Police have had a historically bad relationship with 2SLGBTQ+ communities. But as Nixon and Haller explain, changing harmful attitudes and practices can help foster trust and support victims of abuse.
Also today:
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Research collaboration between police forces and academics could go a long way to ensuring federal legislation aimed at fighting coercive control in intimate relationships is effective.
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N. Zoe Hilton, University of Toronto; Sandy Jung, MacEwan University
Police-academic partnerships are key to the success of evidence-based policing. Growing support for coercive control legislation makes research collaboration all the more urgent.
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Police look on as people rally in support of 2SLGBTQ+ rights in Toronto on Sept., 28, 2019.
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Kendra Nixon, University of Manitoba; Ashley Haller, University of Manitoba
Research finds that police officers engage in discriminatory behaviours towards 2SLGBTQ+ survivors of intimate partner violence.
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Langis Michaud, Université de Montréal
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Business + Economy
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George Kladakis, Edinburgh Napier University; Alexandros Skouralis, City, University of London
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Health
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Politics
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Joseph Siegle, University of Maryland
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