Ten years after coercive control became a criminal offence, charges for this hidden form of domestic abuse continue to rise – signalling a decade of real progress in recognising psychological harm and ...

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 ...

Domestic abusers with a history of coercive or controlling behaviour will be given tougher sentences if they kill their partner under new government plans. Judges will be asked to consider longer jail ...

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

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 and controlling behaviour is now viewed on par with other domestic abuse cases, thanks to changes under the multi-agency public protection arrangements. From Monday, those convicted of the ...

A Channel 4 documentary about Marilyn Manson features a number of women alleging he subjected them to physical, sexual and psychological abuse. (Getty Images) A three-part documentary about Marilyn ...

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 ...

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 ...

"This is not love. This is control," is the message being given to teens in a powerful new campaign to combat coercive control abuse. The Welsh Government said it wants both young people and their ...

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.