The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has marked significant strides in tackling domestic abuse with a noticeable rise in both ...

A campaigner and survivor of domestic abuse has issued a checklist of signs to help identify somebody who is experiencing coercive control. Samantha Billingham, founder of UK-based organisation ...

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 ...

It is 10 years this month since coercive control became an offence. According to the National Centre for Domestic Violence, around 1.6 million women experience domestic abuse annually in England and ...

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Why don’t abused women leave violent relationships? The question is deceptive, as it assumes that women, and others in abusive relationships have choices and agency. In fact, the dynamics of abuse, ...