{"id":22,"date":"2022-06-20T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/domesticabuse\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2022-06-20T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T13:25:22","slug":"what-do-we-mean-by-domestic-abuse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/domesticabuse\/what-do-we-mean-by-domestic-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we mean by domestic abuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-panels_11\" class=\"builder-section-first builder-section builder-section-panels builder-section-last accordion-mode\" style=\"background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center center;\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"ttfmp-accordion-container\" data-height-style=\"\"  data-start-collapsed=\"false\">\n<div id=\"ttfmp-panels-item-title-panels-item_19\" class=\"ttfmp-panels-item-title\">\n\t<\/div>\n<div id=\"ttfmp-panels-item-content-panels-item_19\" class=\"ttfmp-panels-item-content\">\n<p>The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> identifies domestic abuse as a pattern of behaviour that instils fear and is used by abusers to maintain control.\u00a0It\u00a0includes any pattern of controlling, bullying, threatening or violent behaviour towards a partner or ex-partner including psychological and emotional abuse; this includes what is commonly known as \u2018coercive control\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic abuse is\u00a0disproportionately perpetrated by men and experienced by\u00a0women<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a>.\u00a0The UN identifies that\u00a0domestic abuse, along with other forms of gender-based violence, is a form of gender discrimination and \u201cone of the fundamental social, political and economic means by which the subordinate position of women with respect to men and their stereotyped roles are perpetuated.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[iii]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00ad<\/p>\n<p>Behaviours constituting domestic abuse can include: physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological and emotional abuse, isolating the survivor from family and friends, monitoring and regulating the survivor\u2019s activities, controlling their money and\/or activities, depriving them from their freedom of action, frightening, humiliating or degrading them, among other things.<a href=\"#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[iv]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[i]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/domestic-abuse-act-in-force\/\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/domestic-abuse-act-in-force\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/domestic-abuse-scotland-2018-2019-statistics\/pages\/11\/\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/domestic-abuse-scotland-2018-2019-statistics\/pages\/11\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[iii]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tbinternet.ohchr.org\/Treaties\/CEDAW\/Shared%20Documents\/1_Global\/CEDAW_C_GC_35_8267_E.pdf\">Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against women (2017) General recommendation No. 35 on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[iv]<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk\/news\/news\/7-things-to-know-about-scotlands-new-domestic-abuse-law\/\">https:\/\/www.scottishwomensrightscentre.org.uk\/news\/news\/7-things-to-know-about-scotlands-new-domestic-abuse-law\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018[i] identifies domestic abuse as a pattern of behaviour that instils fear and is used by abusers to maintain control.\u00a0It\u00a0includes any pattern of controlling, bullying, threatening or violent behaviour towards a partner or ex-partner including psychological and emotional abuse; this includes what is commonly known as \u2018coercive control\u2019. 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