Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

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Coercive and controlling behaviour is a feature of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, issues that have risen to the top of the social work agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and ...

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Victims say the fear of violence is often worse than the violence itself, and campaigners argue more needs to be done to ...

Stephen Baynham, of Kendal Street, Springfield, appeared before Manchester magistrates to face a charge of coercive and ...

It often begins with controlling behaviour creating fear, intimidation and isolation. Australia's domestic violence scourge has already claimed the lives of 18 women and several children this year. At ...

A recently introduced Colorado bill seeks to require judges to consider "misgendering" as a form of "coercive control" during child custody disputes. If passed, the bill would pose a major threat to ...

Just two people have been sentenced under landmark new coercive control laws in five months, with more than 150 victims still ...