Make coercive or controlling behaviour leading to suicide a specific offence
Domestic violence and coercive control can destroy lives, sometimes driving victims to suicide. Yet the law fails to recognise this as a specific criminal offence.
Mr David Lammy
Deputy Prime Minister
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Make coercive or controlling behaviour leading to suicide a specific offence
Domestic violence and coercive control can destroy lives, sometimes driving victims to suicide. Yet the law fails to recognise this as a specific criminal offence.
Similar motions
Make catfishing a specific criminal offence under coercive control laws
Increase the maximum sentence for coercive control to 10 years
Require psychological injury assessments in coercive control cases
Make parental alienation a criminal offence
Make it a specific criminal offence not to notify the authorities of a death