Writing for HuffPost UK, solicitor general Ellie Reeves MP says the law has transformed the way violence against women and ...

Advice from a Community Care Inform guide on how to identify coercive and controlling behaviour, including practice tips on how to assist if you spot the signs Photo ...

Coercive control and the severe harm it causes to those targeted by an intimate partner gets much-needed attention by new laws making it illegal in a few U.S. states. It’s now recognized that the ...

Love bombing is considered to be an abuse tactic wherein one person showers the other with affection, compliments, gifts, and attention in order to gain their trust and control or manipulate them. The ...

A campaigner and survivor of domestic abuse has issued a checklist of signs to help identify somebody who is experiencing coercive control. Samantha Billingham, founder of UK-based organisation ...

It often begins with controlling behaviour creating fear, intimidation and isolation. Australia's domestic violence scourge has already claimed the lives of 18 women and several children this year. At ...

Coercive and controlling behaviour is a feature of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, issues that have risen to the top of the social work agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and ...

Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

Coercive control would be outlawed, with jail terms of up to seven years, under a bold Coalition plan to tackle the scourge of domestic violence.

In May 2007, my cherished childhood friend, Shelby, was murdered by her coercively controlling, abusive, estranged husband. The heinous act was all premeditated. Weeks after she finally left him, ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WMBF) - A bill in the South Carolina Senate would further define and make what’s known as “coercive control” a crime in the state. S. 588, filed Tuesday by Republican Sen. Stephen ...