The federal government has introduced a major justice reform bill that would create new criminal offences targeting coercive ...

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

South Carolina lawmakers are considering a major expansion of the state’s domestic violence statutes through a bill that would create a new criminal offense k ...

A bill in the state house would amend South Carolina law to create a new criminal offense, known as “coercive control,” while ...

Horry County Senator Stephen Goldfinch recently introduced a bill aimed at criminalizing coercive control in South Carolina.

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.

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 ...

Coercive control was written into U.K. law as a crime in 2015, referring to a form of abuse that occurs within a family or intimate partnerships. Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of ...

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

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 ...

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