Brenda Ottenbreit has felt the harm caused by coercive control. It's why she's fought so hard to see it criminalized. Now, she's "cautiously optimistic" about changes coming to the Criminal Code, even ...

What is coercive control? Less obvious than physical domestic violence, coercive control is a tactic that destr ...

A Victorian parliamentary inquiry into coercive groups mistakenly exposed email addresses, raising concerns about ...

A doctor has been jailed for 10 years for the rape, coercive control and assault of his wife over three years. The ...

New Victorian Liberal Party leader Jess Wilson has targeted domestic violence in her first policy announcement as opposition leader, promising to criminalise coercive control. Coercive control is a ...

According to new research, 42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control. The study, published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly half of respondents ...

I am a Virginia attorney, and have lived here most of my life. I know the legal system here and understand the burden of ...

The man threatened he would throw acid in his wife's face and that the only way she was leaving him was in a coffin ...

A man has been sentenced to five years jail for a sustained pattern of domestic abuse that included strangulation, threats to ...

Since the Equitable Distribution Law, New York Domestic Relations Law (DRL) §236B became effective on July 19, 1980, the divorce and family law bar has seen the development and expansion of the ...

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 ...