Coercive control
5B Coercive control
(1) Coercive control, of a person, is a pattern of conduct that causes the person to fear for their safety, or the safety of another person in a domestic relationship with the person engaging in the conduct, that results in any of the following:
controlling or subordinating the person;
dominating, regulating or monitoring the person's daily activity;
(c) isolating the person from social, familial or cultural connections and support;
depriving the person of freedom;
frightening, humiliating, degrading or punishing the person.
(2) In deciding whether a person's conduct amounts to coercive control of the person, consideration must be given to what is reasonable in the circumstances of the relationship between the persons.
(3) Without limiting subsection (1), a pattern of conduct may be coercive control whether or not any of the conduct is physical behaviour.
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