A sailor stationed in Norfolk, Va., has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the coercion and enticement of a minor.

Coercive measures are used recurrently in inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric care but vary greatly between services ...

The Care Quality Commission's (CQC) annual report into the working of the Mental Health Act reveals disturbing trends in coercive practices by psychiatric services. Compared with the previous year, ...

Coercion is one of those things that can be considered a gray area for many people. In this day and age when everyone throws around terms like “narcissist” and “gaslighting” without regard for their ...

A new Supreme Court case, National Rifle Association of America (NRA) v. Vullo, May 30, 2024, prohibits the use by government of coercion of third parties to inhibit the freedom of speech by an entity ...

Anthropologists, sociologists and biologists have explored over several decades many factors that shape the likelihood of sexual coercion of women by men. Such research cannot, of course, definitively ...

Workplace coercion can change the value and belief system of an organization and create an unhealthy work environment. When organizations allow workplace coercion to run rampantly, employees may ...

Security scholars have long recognized that compellence/coercion is more difficult to achieve than deterrence. (Although both deterrence and compellence require coercion, coercion is commonly used ...