A councillor arrested last year on suspicion of coercive and controlling behaviour will face no further police action. Adam ...

There's no shortage of discussion over the impending New York trial of rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs. One phrase you won't hear during the legal process? "Coercive control." Combs was arrested in ...

Following the passing of landmark legislation in 2022 that criminalised coercive control in New South Wales, a 34-year-old man has now become the first person sentenced to prison under the law.

Domestic abusers harangue their partners in long sessions of verbal abuse. These are not fights; they're attacks. Haranguing is a tactic of coercive control in domestic abuse.

In public the Sydney man was the picture-perfect partner, but behind the scenes was manipulative and controlling.

A Midlands man broke down in court as he pleaded guilty to coercive control of his partner for three and half years.

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 ...

In May 2007, my cherished childhood friend, Shelby, was murdered by her coercively controlling, abusive, estranged husband. The heinous act was all premeditated. Weeks after she finally left him, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man accused of the kidnapping and prolonged abuse of a woman in the Illawarra last year – allegedly chaining her up and ...