South Carolina lawmakers are making a renewed effort to pass a bill aimed at protecting women from domestic violence before ...

Horry and Georgetown county’s top prosecutor says a state bill to tackle a form of abuse could have wide-spread impacts. The ...

Bill inspired by Mica Miller, the late wife of indicted Myrtle Beach-area pastor J.P. Miller, would criminalize coercive ...

A Grand Strand lawmaker has re-introduced a measure that would strengthen protections for victims of coercive control, taking ...

A woman whose former partner has been sentenced for rape and coercive control has said she decided she could not “let him get ...

Coercive control almost always accompanies intimate partner violence (IPV), but IPV doesn’t need to accompany coercive control to effectively gain power and dominance over an intimate partner.

Horry County Senator Stephen Goldfinch recently introduced a bill aimed at criminalizing coercive control in South Carolina.

Federal authorities described the disgraced pastor's actions as "predatory, measured, and inflicted profound trauma to the ...

A woman who was raped by her former partner has said she is "speaking out because I want to turn my pain into purpose" after ...

“I am here, I am speaking out because I want to turn my pain into purpose,” a woman who was raped by her former partner said ...

Just two people have been sentenced under landmark new coercive control laws in five months, with more than 150 victims still ...

Coercive control and the severe harm it causes to those targeted by an intimate partner gets much-needed attention by new laws making it illegal in a few U.S. states. It’s now recognized that the ...