Spousal Drugging and Chemical Control: Domestic Violence, Marital Tort, or Both? Whether it’s spiking food or drinks, withholding essential medication, or administering substances to incapacitate and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Why do we keep explaining away domestic violence? Families in two states have been shattered by an all-too-familiar pattern of domestic violence. It’s horrifying. Yet the way we talk about these ...

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - A West Virginia lawmaker has introduced legislation that would expand the state’s definition of domestic violence to include “coercive control”— a pattern of behavior used to ...

Nearly 3 in 10 women and 1 in 10 men in this country have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by a partner, and report it had a major impact on their functioning. Those cases are just a ...

Police said aggravated assaults are up slightly this year with 18 total incidents, and about 43% of the reported assaults have been domestic in nature.

In March 2016, hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs was caught on camera violently assaulting singer Casandra "Cassie" Ventura Fine in a Los Angeles hotel hallway – kicking, dragging and throwing objects ...