Safe & Together: Mapping Perpetrator Behaviour Patterns To Uncover Coercive Control Ask ChatGPT
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Room 1: In-Person and Online
| Wednesday, November 26, 2025 |
| 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM |
Overview
Jackie Wruck, Safe And Together Institute - Australia
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Key Learnings:
* Pattern-Based Assessment; Mapping shifts focus from isolated incidents of violence to comprehensive patterns of behavior, documenting how perpetrators use tactics (financial, isolation, intimidation) to maintain power and limit freedoms—even when physical violence is minimal or absent.
* Multiple Pathways to Harm: systematically captures how perpetrators' behaviors impact child, partner, and family functioning through direct harm to children, undermining the survivor's parenting, causing housing instability, disrupting routines etc.
* Systems Manipulation: Mapping identifies how perpetrators weaponize courts, child protection, mental health against survivors, making false allegations, forcing unnecessary legal proceedings—forms of coercive control often invisible to standard assessments.
Speaker
Jackie Wruck
Asia Pacific Regional Manager
Safe And Together Institute - Australia
Safe & Together: Mapping Perpetrator Behaviour Patterns to uncover Coercive Control
Presentation Overview
Safe & Together Mapping: Identifying Coercive Control in Domestic Violence
The Safe & Together Model's Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool offers a groundbreaking framework for identifying coercive control in domestic violence cases. Moving beyond incident-based approaches focused on physical violence, this comprehensive assessment methodology captures the full spectrum of controlling behaviors perpetrators employ to entrap their victims.
The mapping process systematically documents the perpetrator's behavioral patterns, examining how controlling tactics operate across relationships and contexts. This behavioral focus makes visible what traditional approaches often miss—how perpetrators maintain control through financial exploitation, surveillance, isolation, and systems manipulation even in the absence of physical violence.
Critically, the tool connects these behaviors to their impacts through Multiple Pathways to Harm, demonstrating how perpetrators' actions affect child, partner, and family functioning by disrupting routines, undermining parenting, creating instability, and interfering with children's developmental needs.
The mapping process excels at identifying post-separation coercive control, where perpetrators weaponize institutions like family courts and child protection services against survivors. By documenting these tactics, it prevents systems from becoming unwitting accomplices in continued abuse.
This perpetrator pattern-based approach creates a common language across services, pivots focus from mother-blaming to perpetrator accountability and enables more effective interventions addressing the actual source of harm.
The Safe & Together Model's Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool offers a groundbreaking framework for identifying coercive control in domestic violence cases. Moving beyond incident-based approaches focused on physical violence, this comprehensive assessment methodology captures the full spectrum of controlling behaviors perpetrators employ to entrap their victims.
The mapping process systematically documents the perpetrator's behavioral patterns, examining how controlling tactics operate across relationships and contexts. This behavioral focus makes visible what traditional approaches often miss—how perpetrators maintain control through financial exploitation, surveillance, isolation, and systems manipulation even in the absence of physical violence.
Critically, the tool connects these behaviors to their impacts through Multiple Pathways to Harm, demonstrating how perpetrators' actions affect child, partner, and family functioning by disrupting routines, undermining parenting, creating instability, and interfering with children's developmental needs.
The mapping process excels at identifying post-separation coercive control, where perpetrators weaponize institutions like family courts and child protection services against survivors. By documenting these tactics, it prevents systems from becoming unwitting accomplices in continued abuse.
This perpetrator pattern-based approach creates a common language across services, pivots focus from mother-blaming to perpetrator accountability and enables more effective interventions addressing the actual source of harm.
Biography
Jackie Wruck is a proud Yindinji woman from FNQ, Cairns/Yarrabah region. She has worked in the government and non-government agencies such as Child Protection, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, Housing and homelessness, counselling support and advocacy of survivors of domestic violence. Her strength is in understanding DFV in context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, and through her own lived experience.
Jackie has been a Safe & Together Model Certified Trainer since 2017 and has utilized the S&T Model with families as well as mentoring and coaching various professionals around the use of the model.
