Advice from a Community Care Inform guide on how to identify coercive and controlling behaviour, including practice tips on how to assist if you spot the signs Photo ...

Having a sense of control is a basic human need, giving us a feeling of stability, safety and predictability. There is healthy control seeking, however, and unhealthy control seeking, the latter often ...

Coercive and controlling behaviour is a feature of domestic abuse and gender-based violence, issues that have risen to the top of the social work agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and ...

Barbara Reeves and Helen Scambler from Mishcon de Reya reflect on the impact of the offence of coercive and controlling behaviour Twenty years ago, a survivor of domestic abuse seeking advice on an ...

Jessica Maguire and Katie Spooner discuss the impact on criminal and family law of the amendment to the offence of controlling and coercive behaviour In December 2015, the Serious Crime Act 2015 ...

From controlling behaviour to dishonesty and lack of support – beware these traits in a new partner Starting a new relationship can be exciting as you get to know someone romantically. But in some ...

A FORMER North Yorkshire resident has been handed a 20-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for assault occasioning actual bodily harm and controlling and coercive behaviour against a woman ...

For several months up until February of this year, Maryport man John Chawner, 26, subjected the woman involved to what she later described as being a “living hell,” Carlisle Crown Court heard. The ...

A man from Bristol has been jailed for subjecting his former partner to years of manipulative and controlling behaviour. Cody Smith-Alwood, 37, of St George, was sentenced to 38 months in prison at ...