Coercive Control Case Analysis

See the pattern behind the incidents - and act early.

Coercive control is rarely obvious in a single statement or report. It’s a pattern that stretches across time, agencies and documents. Our AI agents pull those threads together into a clear, explainable timeline so practitioners, investigators and courts can understand what’s really happening – and act sooner, with less time spent sifting through files and fewer costly escalations later.

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Why coercive control is hard to see

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Coercive control isn’t just shouting, threats or physical violence.

It’s the slow tightening of space around someone’s life: their money, relationships, freedom of movement, access to support and sense of self.

In real cases, that pattern is scattered across:

police logs and risk assessments
court papers and legal submissions
health and mental-health notes
school or social-care records
emails, letters and partner-agency reports
the survivor’s own account, often fragmented and revisited over time

Each incident on its own can look “borderline” or even innocuous. Put together, they tell a completely different story.

Frontline workers are under pressure. They dip in and out of a case, seeing only one part of the picture. Empathy fatigue and fragmented systems mean red flags get missed or minimised – leading to repeat referrals, more serious incidents, expensive emergency responses and, in the worst cases, serious case reviews and litigation.

Our coercive control tool helps you reconstruct the story – consistently, transparently and without shaming the people trying to help, so you can reduce missed risk, prevent avoidable harm and make better use of limited staff time.

What the coercive control tool does

From scattered documents to an organised pattern of control

You upload (or integrate) any text linked to a case:

witness statements and survivor narratives
police reports, call logs and risk assessments
court documents and legal correspondence
partner-agency notes and referrals
case summaries and chronologies

Our agents :

Extract events and behaviours

Identify incidents, interactions and descriptions relevant to control, fear, isolation, monitoring, economic abuse and more, in minutes rather than hours of manual reading.

Label coercive control tactics

Tag events with behaviour types such as surveillance, gaslighting, threats, isolation, rule-setting, financial restriction, sexual coercion and use of children or systems, so practitioners don’t have to “re-invent the wheel” for each case.

Build a cross-document timeline

Place events in order, even when they’re reported differently in multiple documents, and join semantically related events across sources – saving teams the painstaking work of building chronologies by hand.

Link evidence to the pattern

For each labelled tactic, show where it appears across documents, with highlighted excerpts and plain-language explanations, making it quicker to brief colleagues, write reports and justify decisions.

You get a coherent, visualised pattern of control that still respects the complexity of the case, while cutting down on duplicated work and last-minute firefighting.

For practitioners & support services

Give staff a clearer map of complex abuse

Prepare for multi-agency meetings

Bring a structured timeline of coercive behaviours into MARACs, safeguarding conferences or case reviews, so meetings spend less time reconstructing history and more time planning effective action.

Support supervision and reflection

Explore how different services have described the same behaviour, and where language might minimise or miss the pattern, without supervisors having to read every document from scratch.

Strengthen advocacy

Produce clear, annotated timelines survivors can choose to use in conversations with other agencies or legal representatives, reducing the burden on them to retell their story and helping cases move faster through complex systems.

This is not about replacing professional judgment.

It’s about giving workers a better map so their judgment has more to work with – and making every hour of casework and supervision count.

For policing, justice and safeguarding

Evidence patterns, not just incidents

For investigators, prosecutors and courts, the tool:

Surfaces the course of conduct that meets coercive-control definitions, not just isolated offences, reducing the risk of undercharging or missed opportunities for protection.
Links statements and exhibits that refer to the same behaviour, even when phrasing differs, saving time on case preparation and review.
Highlights escalation and triggers – when control intensifies, what happens around separation, pregnancy, reporting, or contact with services – so resources can be targeted where they will prevent the most harm.
Produces explainable reports with timelines, labels and example extracts that can support case reviews, charging decisions and, where appropriate, court bundles, reducing rework, appeals and the costs of adverse findings.

Because every label is backed by text excerpts and reasoning, professionals can scrutinise and challenge the analysis rather than trusting a black box – building confidence in decisions that are both safer and more defensible.

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helping you see the whole pattern, not just the latest crisis. Choose empathy, even when the story is complicated – and make every hour, pound and intervention work harder for the people you serve.