martes , agosto 18 2026

New domestic abuse laws could underestimate violence against women, academic warns

Telegraph. UK

New rules for recording domestic violence could lead to cuts for women’s refuges as female victims are underestimated, a leading academic has warned.

Sylvia Walby, professor of sociology at Lancaster University and a UNESCO Chair in Gender Research said that the new offence of coercive control would mask the fact that women tend to be the victims of a higher number and a more serious level of offences.

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