Three victim-survivors of coercive control have shared their stories to help others spot the signs and act. The Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership (NSVPP) said the "It's Not Love ...

I’ve heard women describe years of psychological torture. Partners who controlled what they wore, who they spoke to, how they spent every penny. Men who monitored phones, isolated them from family and ...

“I had sex with him last night because I was scared not to.” Those were the words of a woman shaking at the other end of a Zoom call with me. As a divorce coach, I’ve heard this many times before — ...

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

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 ...

The Brave Pen launches “Love’s Hidden Abuse: One Woman’s Journey from Silence to Strength,” a mini-memoir by Lyndal Ash that ...

There were 49,557 offences of coercive control recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025, according to domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid. This is an increase from ...

Kate has received funding for research on violence against women and children from a range of federal and state government and non-government sources, including Australia's National Research ...

‘We can create boredom. We can create a sense of frustration. We can create fear in them (...) They’ll have no privacy at all, there will be constant surveillance—nothing they do will go unobserved.

This research was conducted as part of a PhD project funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. No additional funding was received ...

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 ...