Online company Twin Flames is under investigation by the Michigan attorney general for “coercive control” over its members. The group offers help to people looking to find a lifelong romantic partner.

A recent study published in Sex Roles suggests that the general public often underestimates the dangers of controlling ...

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 domestic violence field lost an important advocate with the passing of Andrew Cicchetti, Ph.D., in November 2024. Below are some of his ideas, with quotes taken from our personal correspondence, ...

Control varies relationships from mild, codependent control, to abusive to coercive control. Learn to identify the ...

The wife of a former councillor who was jailed for coercive control has slammed “exploitative” tactics in the run-up to a ...

How ‘Coercive Control’ Is Expanding Domestic Abuse Laws in Several States The concept takes into account nonphysical tactics abusers use to trap their partners. But some worry the new laws will hurt ...

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 ...

Regina Rooney, communications director for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, in 2021. (Fred J. Field/The Maine Monitor) She was the breadwinner of the family, but her husband obsessively ...

An analyst who reviewed police interviews of two witnesses who have testified against Brooks Houck told jurors Friday that the police used highly coercive tactics that affected the quality of ...

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