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18 Criminology & Crim. Just. 3 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/crmcj18 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial Criminology & Criminal justice 2018, Vol. 18(1) 3-6 Editorial introductionThe Author(s) 2018 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.ul/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1748895817751830 journals.sagepub.com/home/cr Kate Fitz-Gibbon OSAGE Monash University, Australia Sandra Walklate University of Liverpool, UK Jude McCulloch Monash University, Australia This Special Issue of Criminology and Criminal Justice examines changing responses to domestic violence and asks the question: is coercive control the answer? Over the last 10 years there has been increased momentum to criminalize 'coercive control' as a response to ongoing concerns about the adequacy of criminal justice responses to domestic violence and as a way to reform the criminal law to better account for the patterns of abuse experienced by women on a day-to-day basis. Coercive control illuminates domestic abuse as a pattern of behaviours, within which physical violence may exist alongside a range of other abusive behaviours. In particular, recent reform has been targeted at improving police responses at the charging stage of the justice system and improving court outcomes at prosecution and conviction in the light of understand- ing the patterning of behaviours associated with domestic abuse. Different jurisdictions have varied markedly in the approaches they have adopted to bringing 'coercive control' within the confines of the criminal law. The most well-known example being that of England and Wales, which, as of December 2015, introduced a gender neutral offence of coercive and controlling behaviour (see section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015). The impact of that offence, the concept of which was based largely on the work of American sociologist and social worker Evan Stark (with the exception that it is drafted using gender neutral language), is still emerging in practice, and at the time of writing it has been met with mixed reviews. Corresponding author: Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia. Email: kate.fitzgibbon@monash.edu

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