Mortal discard names the category of terminal patterns in coercive control — social, extraction, induced-suicidality, and homicide.
Jane Monckton Smith
Kellie Sutton’s case established the UK’s first “unlawful killing” inquest conclusion for self-inflicted death following coercive control.
Manslaughter by coercive control is the legal recognition that perpetrators can be held responsible when abuse drives a victim to suicide.
Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts used by one person to harm, punish or frighten another person to secure psycho-emotional dominance.