Domestic abuse has a higher rate of repeat offending than any other crime and encompasses a vast range of behaviours. While society immediately recognises some of these actions as abuse, other types ...

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration finished its work late last month on a 2012-mandated rulemaking that makes it illegal for shippers, carriers and brokers to threaten drivers with ...

Common themes of regulatory criticism popped up often in the public comments offered on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed driver coercion prohibition rule, chief among them ...

You know that awkward moment when you’re listening to a crime podcast about a brutal murder and you think, “F***, some of that early behavior sounds a lot like my last relationship?” Come on, admit it ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WMBF) - A bill in the South Carolina Senate would further define and make what’s known as “coercive control” a crime in the state. S. 588, filed Tuesday by Republican Sen. Stephen ...

A broadcaster who endured almost a decade of domestic and coercive abuse said she will not let it define the rest of her life. Ruth Dodsworth's ex-husband Jonathan Wignall was jailed in April for ...