When I first began researching domestic abuse in 2020, 20 women had been killed in domestic homicides. Six years on, that ...

Hawaii has criminalized the concept while other states have incorporated it into family or civil court definitions of ...

Control varies relationships from mild, codependent control, to abusive to coercive control. Learn to identify the ...

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 ...

State senator Stephen Goldfinch says South Carolina Bill 702 will not pass the current legislative calendar.

Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says ...

It is long-standing law in Massachusetts that the best interests of a child govern custody disputes. Said another way, when parents cannot agree and the court has to make custody and parenting time ...

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 ...

Surrey Police said Sean Brady, of Sunbury-on-Thames, pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial A man has been jailed for more than two years for engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour and ...

A Newlyn man has been jailed for three years for what a judge described as appalling coercive and controlling behaviour towards his teenage partner.