Victims say the fear of violence is often worse than the violence itself, and campaigners argue more needs to be done to ...

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

Coercive control has been an offence in Ireland since January 2019, becoming only the third country in the world to do so. Just one person has been found guilty of the crime so far, however, a recent ...

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 ...

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.

Charities warn of ‘significant risk’ that victims of coercive control could be put under pressure to end their lives under assisted dying legislation in England and Wales There is a “significant risk” ...

Emotional abuse is one of the hardest things to prove in court - but do you think you'd be able to spot the signs of coercive control? An eye-opening new BBC Three show challenges a group of 20 ...

COERCIVE control is now considered to be a form of abuse and was enshrined in UK law in 2015. It was dramatised in Radio 4’s 2016 long-running series The Archers. Here we fully explain what it is.

A woman who was raped by her former partner has said she is "speaking out because I want to turn my pain into purpose" after ...

Coronation Street's dark Todd Grimshaw and Theo Silverton storyline has taken another sinister twist in the latest episode, ...