I think you've hit the nail on the head. Part of what twigged my understanding of coercive control and why it was so important is that I actually started my career working in a halfway house for women coming out of federal corrections. Although they were there for federal corrections reasons, I would say that the majority of clients who were in the halfway house ended up in conflict with the law because of abusive partners who had coercively controlled them into drug trafficking, prostitution, theft and a whole variety of activities. That's why I think it's really important that we understand that coercive control is so much more than just domestic violence. It can also pertain to what I'll call modern slavery essentially—prostitution, non-consensual drug trafficking, sex trafficking and all of those things.
On February 4th, 2021. See this statement in context.