Charity found that issue is a factor in more than half of deaths related to domestic abuse ...

The article explains that traditional domestic abuse laws focus on visible violence, missing coercive control—psychological ...

The actions of a man who brutally murdered his partner have been described as the “ultimate form of coercive control”.

The topic of coercive control is one that rightfully has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years. It is coming up more and more as part of custody cases. Moreover, in January of 2024, New ...

According to new research, 42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control. The study, published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly half of respondents ...

The law expanding the domestic violence definition is named after women killed by their partners: Jennifer Farber Dulos and ...

A court hears Tarryn Baird attempted to take her life two months before her death.

Jeremaia Tuwai has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for the murder of his partner, Nunia Kurualeba, in a case the court ...

Picture this: a man calls his partner an “OCD freak” at a barbecue, then plucks the small coin she keeps in her pocket for comfort and flips it into the river. The friends laugh. She freezes.

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 ...

For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women without clear legal recognition of their experiences. While NSW, Queensland and ...