It's hard for me to talk about what to include in a law that I don't actually think should be moving forward.
As I said, when we criminalize women and gender-diverse people, we are punishing families. When a caregiver is charged—I have this in my notes, but I didn't say this—and is held on remand, so denied bail for even a short period of time, this can have lasting detrimental effects on her keeping her job, keeping her housing and caring for her children. It is the children who will suffer if a parent is removed from them with a charge of coercive control.
We actually know of innocent people who will probably plead guilty to violence towards their partners, so that they can leave jail and get back to their families faster. They will have a criminal record that will follow them for the rest of their lives. It's a really nuanced issue that we have to examine closely.