A charity supporting survivors of domestic abuse held a summit for professionals last week – exploring the many complicated ...

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Much of the abuse of vulner­able adults and older people is going unpunished because of a lack of safeguarding law, a new ...

England and Wales pioneered the criminalisation of coercive control, but it doesn’t apply outside of intimate or family relationships. Why stop there, asks deputy head of Guardian Opinion Barbara Spee ...

A domestic violence charity is calling on the Irish Goverment to recognise pet abuse as a form of coercive control. Sonas Domestic Violence Charity say concerns about pets pose a significant barrier ...

It is long-standing law in Massachusetts that the best interests of a child govern custody disputes. Said another way, when parents cannot agree and the court has to make custody and parenting time ...

Project Mayhem is an all-male cult – but unlike the real cults that Sarah Steel writes about in Do As I Say, Project Mayhem is fictitious. It comes from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk in his masterpiece ...

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An independent review into the murder of showjumper Katie Simpson has revealed 37 other alleged abuse victims of her accused killer, Jonathan Creswell. The report also found police failings, including ...

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 ...