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<p>The Home Office collect data from police forces in England and Wales on the number
of offences recorded by the police related to domestic abuse. This collection is based
on the government definition of domestic violence and abuse, which is:</p><p>“any
incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour,
violence or abuse between those aged 16 or over who are, or have been, intimate partners
or family members regardless of gender or sexual orientation. The abuse can encompass,
but is not limited to: psychological, physical, sexual, economic and emotional forms
of abuse. Controlling behaviour is a range of acts designed to make a person subordinate
and/or dependent by isolating them from sources of support, exploiting their resources
and capacities for personal gain, depriving them of the means needed for independence,
resistance and escape, and regulating their everyday behaviour. Coercive behaviour
is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or
other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten a person”.</p><p>Therefore,
offences in which an adolescent is violent or abusive to a parent would be recorded
only for those adolescents aged 16 and over.</p><p>It is not possible to separately
identify incidents where an adolescent is violent or abusive to a parent within the
domestic abuse data held centrally.</p>
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