Young people are being urged to watch a documentary focusing on coercive control. Donna Jones, Hampshire’s police and crime commissioner, has encouraged viewers to watch Channel 4’s Controlled: Can I ...

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A Metropolitan Police officer is due in court to face allegations that he coercively controlled his partner and caused suffering to a cat and a dog. PC Chris Eckford-Soper, 41, is accused of being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...