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Asher Flynn, Associate Professor of Criminology, Monash University

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

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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 the victim/survivor

  3. harassment, such as sending offensive material or maintaining unwanted contact

  4. sexual and image-based abuse, including sexual coercion as well as the taking or distribution of sexual imagery without consent.

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