Drawing on experiences from the other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which may be faced in implementing Northern Ireland's new domestic abuse offence.

Vanessa Bettinson is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She researches coercive control in criminal law and is particularly interested in the creation and implementation of coercive control offences and embedding coercive control understandings within defence frameworks.

Ronagh McQuigg is a reader in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, UK. She holds an LLB with First Class Honours, an LLM with Distinction and a PhD, and she is a qualified solicitor. Her research interests focus in particular on domestic abuse, and she teaches in the areas of family law and property law.

1. Introduction

Vanessa Bettinson and Ronagh McQuigg

2. Introducing a Criminal Offence of Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland: Comparative Insights into Criminalising Coercive Control

Vanessa Bettinson and Ronagh McQuigg

3. Understanding and Responding to Coercive Control: Lessons Learned from England and Wales

Charlotte Barlow

4. The Justice Challenge for Policing Northern Ireland: Training Police Officers in the Law of Control.

Rob Ewin

5. Prosecuting Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland: The Challenges of the Trial Process

Jeremy Robson

6. What Might 'Successful' Coercive Control Prosecutions Look Like?

Antonia Porter

7. Taking Learnings from Other Jurisdictions on Supporting Victims and Survivors of Coercive Control

Sonya McMullan