Domestic abuse has a higher rate of repeat offending than any other crime and encompasses a vast range of behaviours. While society immediately recognises some of these actions as abuse, other types ...

Abusers use "love-like" acts to entrap victims in coercive control domestic abuse relationships. Coercive control ...

New research shows children who experience coercive control from parents often believe it is normal parental discipline, making help-seeking particularly difficult.

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 ...

What does the Domestic Violence Act say about gaslighting? The short answer: nothing! But that is not the end of the ...

An expert has revealed the tell-tale signs of coercive control and what not to say to a friend who is being manipulated. Since 2015 controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family ...

UPDATE: This story has been updated to remove allegations that could not be immediately verified. BOSTON (SHNS) – Domestic abuse victims could gain expanded protections — namely, securing a ...

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and I traditionally do a series of columns on this very important but often misunderstood part of the law and society. Six years ago I wrote about the ...

Tracey Ratcliffe, a mother-of-two, was awarded £3.45m in a divorce payout A fashion consultant, whose property tycoon husband was accused of spying on her with CCTV cameras during their £6.9 million ...