I'll try to be brief on this. From the judicial decisions I have read, I think a real problem is that judges don't recognize coercive control, especially in the family law realm. They tend to see violence very much as an incident-based scenario, and they tend to rely much more on physical violence. That's why I think the Criminal Code has a role to play in helping judges to be able to see coercive control.
That's what my research can contribute here.