Bill inspired by Mica Miller, the late wife of indicted Myrtle Beach-area pastor J.P. Miller, would criminalize coercive control in South Carolina.

South Carolina lawmakers are considering a major expansion of the state’s domestic violence statutes through a bill that would create a new criminal offense k ...

Queensland’s landmark coercive control laws have delivered just two prison sentences in five months, leaving more than 150 victims waiting for justice. The exclusive data, obtained by The Courier-Mail ...

The federal government has introduced a major justice reform bill that would create new criminal offences targeting coercive control in intimate relationships, add “femicide” to the Criminal Code and ...

Leveridge, who has a three-page criminal history, struggled with drug addiction during the offending between May 25 and September 12. The court heard he was controlling and demanding in his attempts ...

Australia's eSafety commission has reported a surge in technology being used in family and domestic violence. Smart cars are among the latest connected devices being used in coercive control cases.

The Victorian opposition will introduce a bill seeking to criminalise coercive control next week. Opposition leader Jess Wilson has urged the government to provide bipartisan support for the proposal.

More than 50 charges of coercive control have been laid in the six months since it was criminalised in Queensland, but advocates and legal experts believe more training is needed to better identify ...