Hawaii has criminalized the concept while other states have incorporated it into family or civil court definitions of ...
-Among people who experienced coercive control, close to 42.9 % also report physical violence — meaning controlling behavior often precedes or accompanies more overt assault (according to PMC).
The topic of coercive control is one that rightfully has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years. It is coming up more and more as part of custody cases. Moreover, in January of 2024, New ...
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 ...
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 ...
Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says ...
A special report by Cosmopolitan and The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Not long after Sophie*, now 28, moved into her boyfriend Sam’s new house in suburban Illinois, he brought ...
It is long-standing law in Massachusetts that the best interests of a child govern custody disputes. Said another way, when parents cannot agree and the court has to make custody and parenting time ...
Jasmin Tarasin pitched a film about coercive control, then had to race to keep up with a “groundswell” of philanthropists ...