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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 ...
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 ...
Society is beginning to reckon with coercive control of intimate partners — and rightly so. Yet, as we act on this overdue recognition, there is another dimension of control and entitlement that ...