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

42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control, according to new research released this week. The study, published in Wiley Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly ...

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 ...

An emotionally abusive relationship can become evident during couple's therapy. Helping a victim find safety and rebuild their sense of self is key.

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.

Just two people have been sentenced under landmark new coercive control laws in five months, with more than 150 victims still ...

This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...

Elizabeth McLindon received funding from Oak Foundation for this research. She is affiliated with The Royal Women's Hospital, Victoria, where she is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Family ...

The federal government has introduced a major justice reform bill that would create new criminal offences targeting coercive control in intimate relationships, add “femicide” to the Criminal Code and ...

More than 50 charges of coercive control have been laid in the six months since it was criminalised in Queensland, but advocates and legal experts believe more training is needed to better identify ...

Kathleen McPhillips receives funding from the Australian Research Theology Foundation ARTFinc), the Ian and Shirley Norman Foundation (ISNF) and the Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme ...

One of the first men to be charged and sentenced under Queensland’s coercive control laws has faced court for emotionally abusing his mother.