Writing for HuffPost UK, solicitor general Ellie Reeves MP says the law has transformed the way violence against women and ...
Mica Miller’s family — who helped inspire a statewide coercive control bill — is hopeful after a second one was recently ...
CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) — It’s an insidious form of domestic violence that doesn’t leave bumps or bruises but is just as painful. “Coercive control is basically like a psychological warfare,” Conway ...
A bill in the state house would amend South Carolina law to create a new criminal offense, known as “coercive control,” while ...
Horry and Georgetown county’s top prosecutor says a state bill to tackle a form of abuse could have wide-spread impacts. The ...
When Colleen DeLeo of Worcester learned Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill that defined coercive control as a form of domestic abuse, she said she broke down in tears. DeLeo, 41, told MassLive she is a ...
The federal government has introduced a major justice reform bill that would create new criminal offences targeting coercive ...
This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...
Coercive control and the severe harm it causes to those targeted by an intimate partner gets much-needed attention by new laws making it illegal in a few U.S. states. It’s now recognized that the ...
Ten years after coercive control became a criminal offence, charges for this hidden form of domestic abuse continue to rise – signalling a decade of real progress in recognising psychological harm and ...
Just two people have been sentenced under landmark new coercive control laws in five months, with more than 150 victims still ...