Writing for HuffPost UK, solicitor general Ellie Reeves MP says the law has transformed the way violence against women and girls is tackled in the last decade.

Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

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 ...

Fewer than one in six 16-year-olds have heard of coercive control and know what it means, a new study suggests. The research from Ulster University (UU), Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and the ...

Coercive control is a pattern of behaviour which can include isolation, intimidation, sexual coercion and cyberstalking. Survivors have described coercive control as "intimate terrorism" or "living in ...

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 ...

Maryland courts may no longer order mediation in custody and visitation cases when one parent makes a good-faith report of coercive control by the other, whether physical abuse is involved or not.

While domestic abuse can often include violence, this doesn’t always mean physical harm. In some instances, it can appear, from the outside, to be entirely 'invisible' – but that doesn’t mean it’s not ...

Domestic abuse isn’t just physical. People can be subject to assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation that is used to punish or frighten them – this is known as coercive control. Coercive ...