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'Groundbreaking' OBSERVER 'Blows assumptions about abusive relationships out of the water' CAITLIN MORAN 'Offers a strategy for intervention that would save lives' INDEPENDENT Every four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner – and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic. For thirty years, Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder. Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse – while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive.

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Blow assumptions about relationships out of the water . . . A game-changer -- Caitlin Moran
Shocking, frank, and very, very necessary. -- Sam Baker
A powerful book that offers a strategy for intervention that would save lives * The Independent *

In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 17 March 2022
      ISBN-13 9781526613226
      978-1526613226
      ISBN-10 1526613220
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      Health & Wellbeing Popular psychology Politics, Philosophy & Society Crime and criminology Science & Nature Popular science Self Help & Mindfulness

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      Book Synopsis
      'Groundbreaking' OBSERVER 'Blows assumptions about abusive relationships out of the water' CAITLIN MORAN 'Offers a strategy for intervention that would save lives' INDEPENDENT Every four days in the UK, a woman is killed by her partner or ex-partner – and in the past year, domestic abuse has become an epidemic. For thirty years, Jane Monckton Smith has been fighting to change this. A former police officer and internationally renowned professor of public protection, she has developed her ground-breaking research into an eight-stage homicide timeline, laying out identifiable stages in which coercive relationships can escalate to violence and murder. Drawing on disciplines including psychology, sociology and law, Monckton Smith talks to victims, their families and killers to piece together the hows and whys of abuse – while shining a searching light onto the society and media that allow it to thrive.

      Trade Review
      Blow assumptions about relationships out of the water . . . A game-changer -- Caitlin Moran
      Shocking, frank, and very, very necessary. -- Sam Baker
      A powerful book that offers a strategy for intervention that would save lives * The Independent *

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