Hannah Clarke and Doreen Langham were subject to an ongoing pattern of control before being killed by their partners.

The Supreme Court of Canada recognized intimate partner violence as a new civil wrong on Friday. The majority said it is a ...

“Coercive control” is the term for a diabolical relationship pattern that can have devastating consequences. It occurs when one person unreasonably interferes with another person’s free will and ...

The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological and financial abuse that leaves no scars but is equally harmful. New York ...

Family law reflects evolving societal norms, technology, and economic trends, and has recently undergone a critical shift in how it understands domestic abuse. No longer confined to physical violence, ...

OTTAWA — In a landmark decision, a majority on the Supreme Court ruled that victims of intimate partner violence can sue an ...

The impact of all that has happened to me can’t be put into words,” a female victim of assault and coercive control at the ...

Some states are banking on the idea that you can stop domestic violence even before it leads to blows. The controversial, fledgling approach to domestic violence prosecution wants to make family ...

The UK was the first country in the world to criminalise coercive control. So why are we still not paying attention to this insidious form of violence? We were in the smoking area, a place where ...