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Half of Australians will experience technology-facilitated abuse in their lifetimes: new research

  • Written by Asher Flynn, Associate Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Technology-facilitated abuse is a form of interpersonal violence using mobile, online and/or digital technologies. It includes four main types of behaviours:

  1. monitoring and controlling, such as keeping track of where the victim/survivor is and who they are with

  2. emotional abuse and threats, such as sending put-downs or threatening to harm...

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