Coercive control was written into U.K. law as a crime in 2015, referring to a form of abuse that occurs within a family or intimate partnerships. Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts of ...

Coercive abuse can be hard to spot because it may not even involve physical violence, and when it does, the violence is only one aspect of the pattern of undermining and control.

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