Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Channel 4 documentary about Marilyn Manson features a number of women alleging he subjected them to physical, sexual and ...

When we think of intimate partner violence (IPV), we may immediately think of overt physical or emotional abuse. However, there is another form of abuse that often flies under the radar because it may ...

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 ...

In 2020, calls to defund the police echoed a longstanding argument in critical criminology in favour of police abolition. Academics who support abolition promote activism over collaboration. But as ...

Last week as America celebrated its independence, so too did thousands of Massachusetts domestic abuse survivors. Thanks to the unanimous, bipartisan support of our state legislators, the passage of H ...

If you’ve been online much over the last few weeks, you may have seen the words “coercive control,” “boundaries,” and “therapy speak” doing the rounds. The conversation was instigated by Jonah Hill’s ...

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 ...

When Stephanie* called the police to report coercive control, she says she was told it was "too hard too prove" and it was ...

New laws designed to strengthen family violence protections in Tasmania include an extension to the statutory limitation period for coercive control offences, and a "nation-leading" levy which would ...

Coercive control is a pattern of abusive behaviours used to hurt, scare or isolate another person within an intimate partner relationship, in order to control them. It is recognised as a form of ...

For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women without clear legal recognition of their experiences. While NSW and Queensland ...