A year after coercive control laws were introduced in Queensland, figure show reporting of the domestic violence offence has ...

Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says he began using coercive control and physical violence against her. However, ...

Some states are banking on the idea that you can stop domestic violence even before it leads to blows. The controversial, fledgling approach to domestic violence prosecution wants to make family ...

As Bill C-16 — the Protecting Victims Act — moves through Parliament, advocates are raising concerns that the proposed laws could leave some of the most vulnerable older adults unprotected. It comes ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WBTW) — Almost two years to the day that Mica Miller’s life ended at a Robeson County state park, her sister told South Carolina lawmakers they could have helped prevent tragedy. “Mica ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WMBF) - Advocates are encouraging South Carolina lawmakers to expand the state’s current definition of domestic abuse, claiming a proposed law could have saved a life. Bill 702, known to ...

OTTAWA - Groups representing women’s shelters are praising the government’s move to criminalize coercive control, but some women’s organizations are also warning there is a risk of backlash. Bill C-16 ...

This post is intended to support clinicians in understanding the lived experiences of children exposed to coercive control, describe how coercive controllers manipulate children into compliance, ...

England and Wales pioneered the criminalisation of coercive control, but it doesn’t apply outside of intimate or family relationships. Why stop there? When Rachael Reign finally left her relationship ...

The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological and financial abuse that leaves no scars but is equally harmful. New York ...