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The argument put forward in this book is that terrorists operate in Australia every day. Innocent women are tortured, held captive and/or killed every week in this country and worldwide by people who rely on fear and intimidation to control them. But because these terrorists torture the women they profess to love, their intimate partners (or ex-partners), their behaviour is hidden from public sight; it is hardly ever discussed and rarely evokes outrage and has never resulted in governments or anyone else declaring a “war” against it. This chapter explores the concept of coercive control as proposed by Stark (2007), Murphy (2014) and others and makes a convincing argument for characterizing coercive control as a form of terrorism.
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© 2015 Sharon Hayes and Samantha Jeffries
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Hayes, S., Jeffries, S. (2015). Romantic Terrorism. In: Romantic Terrorism: An Auto-Ethnography of Domestic Violence, Victimization and Survival. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137468499_2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137468499_2
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