NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lisa Fontes, an expert in coercive control and sexual violence, about Gisèle Pelicot's case and the effects of chemical submission.

"I'm sat here as living proof you will be able to stand again," says one survivor.

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

Ferguson said offenders who would end up killing their partners, like Gerard Baden-Clay, would try to mask their culpability. “We know that the types of behaviours that those perpetrators use are ...

A West Virginia lawmaker has introduced legislation that would expand the state’s definition of domestic violence to include “coercive control”— a pattern of behavior used to isolate, control and ...

A rural crime investigation of stock theft has taken a dark turn after a 50-year-old man from a property near Wagga was ...

Domestic abuse is insidious, with a few warning signs within a new relationship overlooked in that hazy, rose-tinted euphoric stage of falling in love.

Sean Bradford's ex-partner disclosed five years of physical and psychological abuse, police say.

This past October, domestic violence month, was also a time to recognize changes to the legal definition of domestic violence. This year's statutory progress included coercive control in intimate ...

Alexandra Sidoti, senior ombudsman with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, said it is “a bit of a funny space around these” because sometimes it is not clear to see the conduct or it is ...