The government's bill does not detail specific coercive control behaviours which it says is deliberate.

There were 49,557 offences of coercive control recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025, according to domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid. This is an increase from ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WMBF) - A bill in the South Carolina Senate would further define and make what’s known as “coercive control” a crime in the state. S. 588, filed Tuesday by Republican Sen. Stephen ...

The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological and financial abuse that leaves no scars but is equally harmful. New York ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WMBF) - Advocates are encouraging South Carolina lawmakers to expand the state’s current definition of domestic abuse, claiming a proposed law could have saved a life. Bill 702, known to ...

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 ...

Jane* was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively monitored their finances. Every week, he made her present a ledger of their income and expenses. If something was not to his liking ...

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Victim says she will 'have to live with the effects of trauma for the rest of my life', with defendant to be sentenced on ...