Double the number of cases of controlling or coercive behaviour in intimate relationships were recorded in the UK in 2017-18 than in the previous year. The offence became a crime in England and Wales ...

The ACT government has proposed new laws to make coercive control a standalone offence in the territory. Coercive control ...

In 2020, calls to defund the police echoed a longstanding argument in critical criminology in favour of police abolition. Academics who support abolition promote activism over collaboration. But as ...

Sometimes people are too smart by half and unfortunately attempt to use the domestic violence system as a sword. In 2009, I wrote on this blog a post entitled The Abuse and Misuse of the Domestic ...

A councillor arrested last year on suspicion of coercive and controlling behaviour will face no further police action. Adam Clements, who represents Milton-under-Wychwood on West Oxfordshire District ...

When Stephanie* called the police to report coercive control, she says she was told it was "too hard too prove" and it was ...

Just 10 people have been sentenced in the first year of landmark coercive control laws while more than 350 victims wait for ...

NEWS RELEASE ANISHINABEK POLICE SERVICE ************************* This week, the Anishinabek Police Service (APS) is ...

As of June 2024, Bill C-332 is at its second reading in Canada’s Senate, following its third reading in the House of Commons. Introduced by NDP MP Laurel Collins, Bill C-332 is an amendment to the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The abuse Samantha endured started slowly. Her then-partner Callum Fairleigh would monitor her ...

Hannah Clarke and Doreen Langham were subject to an ongoing pattern of control before being killed by their partners.