Conclusions The C-CAS, a self-report measure of coercive control experiences among women, has demonstrated initial reliability and validity and is suitable for use in population or clinical studies.

Nearly one in five men aged 18 to 24 do not recognise controlling a partner's spending as a form of abuse, according to new research published by the UK Home Office and Surviving Economic Abuse.

It often begins with controlling behaviour creating fear, intimidation and isolation. Australia's domestic violence scourge has already claimed the lives of 18 women and several children this year. At ...

According to new research, 42% of Australians still have low awareness of coercive control. The study, published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, revealed that nearly half of respondents ...

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 ...

Men who use coercive control are more likely to kill their partner and extend their control to conceal her murder as a suicide or accident. QUT criminologists Dr. Claire Ferguson and Dr. Freya ...

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Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

Surrey Police said Sean Brady, of Sunbury-on-Thames, pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial A man has been jailed for more than two years for engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour and ...

A Taree man who told his girlfriend what to wear, how much to drink and to have her phone on at all times also sent her a list of “rules” while she was overseas on a gymnastics scholarship.