The power and control diagram below is a particularly helpful tool in “understanding the overall pattern of abusive and violent behaviors, which are used by a perpetrator to establish and maintain control over his partner in any given relationship”.3 Case studies will be analysed later in this Report to identify elements of the power and control wheel to establish any linkage between family violence and power and control. Inquiry Info Point 2: The Power and Control Wheel Adapted from: National Centre on Domestic and Sexual Violence 5.5.3 Gender Based Violence and Gender Inequality A large proportion of family violence is perpetrated against women and girls and therefore one of the initial questions for the Report is whether gender inequality is the primary cause of family violence in Samoa, as it is in most other parts of the world. The Inquiry also considered all other types of family violence and whether the causes of that are also linked to gender inequality or if there are other roots. 3 Refer to National Centre on Domestic and Sexual Violence. “Power and Control Wheel.” Retrieved from https://www.med.unc.edu/im/files/patient-education-handouts/power-and-control-wheel. Accessed 29 May 2018.