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 ...

Control varies relationships from mild, codependent control, to abusive to coercive control. Learn to identify the ...

Hawaii has criminalized the concept while other states have incorporated it into family or civil court definitions of ...

Seventy years ago, Albert Biderman developed the Chart of Coercion to show the mind-bending techniques used to control ...

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 ...

Things were almost too good to be true when Lucy met her now ex-partner. But over the course of their relationship, she says ...

When I first began researching domestic abuse in 2020, 20 women had been killed in domestic homicides. Six years on, that ...

Three victim-survivors of coercive control have shared their stories to help others spot the signs and act. The Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership (NSVPP) said the "It's Not Love ...

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 ...

England and Wales pioneered the criminalisation of coercive control, but it doesn’t apply outside of intimate or family relationships. Why stop there, asks deputy head of Guardian Opinion Barbara Spee ...

Jasmin Tarasin pitched a film about coercive control, then had to race to keep up with a “groundswell” of philanthropists ...