In Control
Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
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Publisher Description
'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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
“Abuse isn’t merely a series of fights between two people, it is a mindset and an inflexible and dangerous way of operating.” This is just one of the deeply fascinating lines from a book that could prove a game-changer in challenging how people think about domestic violence and abuse patterns. Professor Jane Monckton-Smith—a former police officer—has been sounding the alarm around skyrocketing domestic homicide statistics for 30 years, and here she presents her eight-stage homicide timeline so victims (and their friends and family) might catch red flags before situations escalate. Monckton-Smith eviscerates the dangerous worlds of toxic masculinity, victim-blaming and coercive control to lay out a fresh way of thinking that feels both entirely sensible and utterly revolutionary.
