The Marshall Project

How ‘Coercive Control’ Is Expanding Domestic Abuse Laws in Several States

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. On April 27, 2024, ...
Psychology Today

Coercive Control, Gaslighting, and Recovery

Coercive control was written into U.K. law as a crime in 2015, referring to a form of abuse that occurs within a family or intimate partnerships. Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of ...

Rape victim 'finally free after years of hiding'

Despite getting out of the house, Miss Grindley said her freedom from Ball only really came four-and-a-half years later. She ...
Yahoo

'Coercive control' is the phrase you won't hear about at the Diddy trial. Why it's still important.

There's no shortage of discussion over the impending New York trial of rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs. One phrase you won't hear during the legal process? "Coercive control." Combs was arrested in ...
The Conversation

‘I was very fearful of my parents’: new research shows how parents can use coercive control on their children

Kate has received funding for research on violence against women and children from a range of federal and state government and non-government sources, including Australia's National Research ...
The Conversation

How perpetrators of domestic violence use drugs and alcohol to control their victims

Cathy Humphreys receives funding from the Australian Research Council, ANROWS and funding from community organisation grants for specific projects. Margaret Kertesz receives funding from the ...