Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of Parliament have voted unanimously to criminalize coercive control, a pattern of behaviour that can perpetuate domestic ...

"I'm sat here as living proof you will be able to stand again," says one survivor.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A councillor arrested last year on suspicion of coercive and controlling behaviour will face no further police action. Adam ...

Sean Bradford's ex-partner disclosed five years of physical and psychological abuse, police say.

A West Virginia lawmaker has introduced legislation that would expand the state’s definition of domestic violence to include “coercive control”— a pattern of behavior used to isolate, control and ...

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 ...

Authorities are struggling to successfully prosecute domestic and family offenders under Australia’s new Coercive Control laws. Despite recording nearly 300 incidents last year, only nine coercive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...