At first, it looks like love. He's charming. Always generous, always attentive. He remembers your coffee order, listens to your stories, seems to share your pain. He tells you that you're the only one ...

The "culture of affluence" creates special challenges for wealthy victims of intimate partner abuse. We need to understand their predicament to offer meaningful help.

A new guide has been launched to help tackle the growing threat of domestic abusers using technology, like smart doorbells and mobiles, against older people. Developed by Aberystwyth University ...

As abusers exploit new technologies to control their victims, we ask what’s being done about this worrying new trend? It was an ordinary Thursday for Lynda*. With Netflix on in the background, a cup ...

MADISON (WKOW) — Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that automation apps, like iPhone's 'shortcuts', can be a vehicle potential abusers use to control their partner's activities ...

We tend to associate the word “abuse” with more extreme behaviors and actions. However, abuse occurs on a continuum and can take on different forms and morph and/or escalate over the course of the ...

Domestic abusers "weaponize love" by forging "trauma bonds" with their victims before violence begins, new research reveals. The study outlines the "tactical playbook" deployed by male abusers based ...

Jane* was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively monitored their finances. Every week, he made her present a ledger of their income and expenses. If something was not to his liking ...

This research was conducted as part of a PhD project funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. No additional funding was received ...

Before going on to commit violence, domestic abusers use a mix of intense affection and emotional cruelty, combined with tales of their own childhood trauma, to generate a deep psychological hold that ...