Reflecting on Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Femicide in Scotland.

Violence Against Women · 2023 · PMC9896526 · PMID 35989666

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This is highly significant since it serves, inappropriately, to mitigate sentences and render men's actions reasonable and understandable, while distancing them from the reality of coercive control—a “pattern of oppression” ( Stark, 2009 , p. 4).

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