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Controlled - Can I Trust My Partner?

Duration: 1 x 60'

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Journalist Daisy Maskell investigates why partner abuse is surging amongst the under 30's age group, meeting victim-survivors and hearing how inexperience, childhood exposure, and social media are all making young people more vulnerable.

Shocking new data showing reports of an abusive partner to the police from a younger generation have almost tripled in the last 10 years. 

With analysis of two million police reports, and a survey of almost a thousand victim-survivors, Daisy investigates why partner abuse is on the rise among young people, and asks what can be done.

She meets victim-survivors to learn about the devastating toll of abuse, and hears how inexperience, childhood exposure, and social media - which sometimes normalises and even romanticises abuse - are all making young people more vulnerable. 

Together with her boyfriend, she launches a bold experiment to explore the powers of stalkerware: hidden apps used by abusers to secretly tap into their victims’ phones and spy on them 24/7. We reveal that police have seen a massive increase in complaints about this technology in the last three years.

 

 

For Channel 4

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