Sentence examples for coercive abuse from inspiring English sources

Many women whose experiences of domestic abuse are confined to psychological or coercive abuse may not even define themselves as "abused women" since there is little education about what non-violent abuse consists of.

Under a new pilot scheme run by the college, officers from three forces will be trained to look out for patterns of coercive abuse and controlling behaviour that can lead to long-term psychological injury.

Manual searches were carried out to establish number of other children prior to index pregnancy, partner status, smoking, alcohol and drug use during pregnancy, recorded history of maternal abuse in childhood and whether the woman had been a victim of domestic abuse before and during pregnancy (encompassing physical, sexual, emotional and coercive abuse).

I am particularly concerned with coercive traditions that abuse the power differential between new students and upperclassmen.

The coercive and controlling abuse she suffered is, for the most part, distinguished by being undistinguished – the details so ordinary, so mundane that even she couldn't see what she was worried about, much less explain it.

Recent WHO guidelines [ 41] highlight that women commonly experience verbal abuse, coercive medical procedures and a lack of informed consent during pregnancy and birth.

The remaining five described experiencing coercive control and abuse, including manipulation (eg, blame for his infidelity), sexual coercion (eg, refusal to wear condoms, pressure to have intercourse) and abandonment on disclosure of status.

Even this has been a long time coming, with the psychological abuse of coercive control that accompanies or precedes violence only recently having become a crime.

In her article this week, Walmsley Johnson pointed out the importance of the storyline so soon after new laws made coercive or controlling domestic abuse a crime punishable by up to five years in prison last December.

The government launched a consultation on Wednesday to look at strengthening the law by explicitly stating that domestic abuse covers coercive and controlling behaviour as well as physical harm.

"That control is central to domestic violence, which is why we're campaigning for all psychological abuse and coercive control to be criminalised.