Not all abusive behaviours cross the line into criminal levels of domestic abuse, researchers warned. Data on the severity of abuse was not published on Friday, but is expected in November.

I just thought it was part and parcel of married life. ... a report by Surviving Economic Abuse estimated 750,000 UK women with joint mortgages in the past two years were being financially abused.

Bankers, lawyers and accountants could be unintentionally helping facilitate economic abuse, Australian research suggests ...

Millions more adults in England and Wales are believed to have experienced domestic abuse since the age of 16, after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) overhauled its crime survey. They ...