He called it using the “coercive power” of the state to do good—his definition of good, of course. “You do have to have, at the end of the day, a regulation, a law,” the governor said. “Progress comes ...

Massachusetts could join a small group of states expanding the definition of domestic violence to include acts of coercive control. The Senate bill passed on Thursday not only amends the state's ...

On Monday, experts discussed coming up with a national definition of domestic and family violence that would include coercive control. “Let’s lead the way,” Ms Donovan said.

In England, “coercive control” laws took hold over five years of iterations from 2012 until 2018, when the nation fully adopted it as part of the legal definition of domestic violence.