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

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 ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lisa Fontes, an expert in coercive control and sexual violence, about Gisèle Pelicot's case and the effects of chemical submission. I'd like to mention that our next ...

Three victim-survivors of coercive control have shared their stories to help others spot the signs and act. The Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership (NSVPP) said the "It's Not Love ...

'If the same pattern of abuse is carried out by a son rather than a spouse, the proposed offence would not apply,' one expert ...

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 ...

People sometimes have a hard time believing that domestic abuse matters in wealthy families. And by “people,” I mean judges, juries, neighbors, colleagues, psychotherapists, and everyone else. Some ...

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 ...

MLAs heard there are currently around 53,000 active licences in Northern Ireland corresponding to over 100,000 firearms ...

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 ...