It has been 10 years since coercive control became a criminal offence in England and Wales, but it can still be hard to ...

“Coercive control” is the term for a diabolical relationship pattern that can have devastating consequences. It occurs when one person unreasonably interferes with another person’s free will and ...

Picture this: a man calls his partner an “OCD freak” at a barbecue, then plucks the small coin she keeps in her pocket for comfort and flips it into the river. The friends laugh. She freezes.

It's the abuse that doesn't leave a physical mark but leaves victims humiliated, threatened and frightened. It's coercive control.

It is an insidious form of domestic abuse where victims can be controlled, isolated or intimidated by their partner as a form of control. Many victims of coercive control can be unaware the abuse has ...

For too long, coercive control has been the "invisible" reality of domestic abuse, leaving thousands of Australian women ...

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