Understanding Coercive Behaviour

Coercive control is not confined to one country or region. This course content is universally applicable and teaches recognition and legal knowledge. If you are currently experiencing coercive control, please contact you local support services. The course can wait.

Coercive control became a criminal offence in Ireland on 1 January 2019 under the Domestic Violence Act 2018. Many people experiencing it do not know it has a name — and do not know it is against the law.
This course will take approximately 15 minutes. You will make decisions across three real scenarios, learn the exact legal framework, and leave knowing what coercive control is, what the law says, and what to do if you or someone you know is experiencing it.
Format

On Demand

Starting date

Available

Learners

Teens & Adults

Level

Beginner

Duration

15 mins

Price

FREE

Why should I take this course?

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Know it

Spot it

Tactics

Coercive control does not require a single dramatic incident. It is a sustained pattern of behaviour — controlling, isolating, humiliating, or frightening — that has a serious effect on the victim's daily life. Under Irish law, this pattern is a criminal offence regardless of whether physical violence has occurred.
Gaslighting is the deliberate undermining of a person's sense of reality, designed to make them dependent on the abuser's version of events.
The TACTICS of coercive control include: isolation from friends and family · financial control · digital surveillance and monitoring · gaslighting (making the victim doubt their own reality) · excessive contact · controlling daily routines, appearance, and movement · threats — including threats that do not involve physical violence. Each of these alone may seem survivable. As a sustained pattern, they constitute a criminal offence.
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