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, ...

"I'm sat here as living proof you will be able to stand again," says one survivor.

It has been 10 years since coercive control became a criminal offence in England and Wales, but it can still be hard to identify.

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 ...

WORCESTER — It can start with a critical comment about someone’s attire or their choice of friends, intense questions about work or social plans, behaviors that may be appear innocent but can escalate ...

Coercive control was written into U.K. law as a crime in 2015, referring to a form of abuse that occurs within a family or intimate partnerships. Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of ...

Ferguson said offenders who would end up killing their partners, like Gerard Baden-Clay, would try to mask their culpability. “We know that the types of behaviours that those perpetrators use are ...

When I met a woman I will call Jenny, I was prepared for a tough story. Her physician had contacted me to assess her case and provide treatment for domestic abuse. “I have seen terrible things,” the ...

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From Toowoomba to Roma’s oil and gas field sites, people travelling along the highway may soon see bright pink trucks carry a ...