Helping survivors of domestic abuse

Researchers released a powerful film featuring testimonies from survivors of domestic abuse. The animation movingly illustrates the findings of Professor Nancy Lombard and Dr Katy Proctor’s study of women’s experiences of the Scottish criminal justice system after reporting stalking and coercive control. The short, by creative agency media co-op, won Best Charity Film - Small at the Third Sector Excellence Awards.

They spoke to more than 130 women about their feelings of frustration at a lack of communication from the police and courts, delays, and perpetrators breaching bail conditions for the Scottish Government-funded report.

Their report calls for women to be listened to and heard, for police and criminal justice staff to better understand the trauma caused by reporting coercive control, and for bail conditions to be better enforced.