Criminalizing coercive control: Part one | Pamela Cross

By Pamela Cross ( February 29, 2024, 9:30 AM EST) -- We’ve heard a lot about coercive control in the past few years. Its first big appearance in the legal world came with the 2021 revisions to the Divorce Act which included, among other changes, a definition of family violence that included the phrase “a pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour.”...