Do non-fatal strangulation laws save lives? Non-fatal strangulation (NFS) is a common and dangerous form of intimate partner violence (IPV) and a predictor of h

Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people.

Background Domestic abuse (DA) is a public health problem with wide-ranging impacts for victim-survivors and services responding to it. The purpose of the current study was to explore relationships be...

There is increasing awareness of non-fatal strangulation (NFS) in interpersonal violence in adults but less in the literature regarding children and y…

Exclusive: Analysis finds domestic abuse training for staff in England and Wales ‘sporadic and inconsistent’

Exclusive: Analysis finds domestic abuse training for staff in England and Wales ‘sporadic and inconsistent’

Background Approximately 30% of women experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime, often with traumatic brain injury (TBI) exposure. Nevertheless, there has been limited research expl...

We requested data from the Home Office in 2023 pertaining to the number of strangulation and suffocation offences recorded by the police in the first year of strangulation and suffocation becoming a s...

This Research Briefing outlines how English law currently applies to depictions of sexual strangulation, why it is a concern that such material is so freely and

(1) Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused from rapid head acceleration/deceleration, focal blows, blasts, penetrating forces, and/or shearing forces, whereas hypoxic-anoxic injury (HAI) i...

Power isn’t equal in an unhealthy relationship. But it’s no surprise Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s team is deploying the tactic

Objective: In collaboration with Brooklyn District Attorney office, we examined and designed a quality improvement study to look at the performance of CT imaging in non-fatal strangulation DV in the e...

Independent review also calls for ban on other ‘legal but harmful’ material that is degrading, violent or misogynistic