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Ferguson said offenders who would end up killing their partners, like Gerard Baden-Clay, would try to mask their culpability.

Five years since the murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children, her parents Lloyd and Sue have urged governments to implement nationwide coercive control laws as domestic violence rates continue ...

However Mr Speakman has left the door open to introducing government legislation to criminalise “coercive control” pending recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry into the issue. Parental ...

Devastating details of the country’s DV crisis have come to light as NSW introduces ‘long overdue’ plans to keep women and ...

This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Sign up for future newsletters. On April 27, 2024, ...

Family law reflects evolving societal norms, technology, and economic trends, and has recently undergone a critical shift in how it understands domestic abuse. No longer confined to physical violence, ...

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 ...

Some states are banking on the idea that you can stop domestic violence even before it leads to blows. The controversial, fledgling approach to domestic violence prosecution wants to make family ...