The jury reached a verdict swiftly, finding Narag guilty within four hours of closing arguments. The trial ended at 1:30 p.m. with Judge Jeffrey Finigan announcing the guilty verdict shortly after ...

The bulletin lists 17 cases since 2014 of people attempting to poison their family members, resulting in at least 11 deaths.

Expert calls on employers, HR professionals to know the legalities, workplace impact of workers facing domestic violence ...

A 23-year-old Anaheim woman is accused of killing and decapitating her boyfriend of just two months, then slipping across the ...

The Halifax Regional Police has agreed to participate in the federal government’s gun buyback program, making it one of only three municipal police forces to do so in Canada. Police Chief Don MacLean ...

Chief Don MacLean said the force is joining the program in part due to the province's high rate of intimate partner violence ...

Halifax’s municipal police chief says the force will participate in the federal government’s buyback program for banned guns, ...

A review of domestic violence homicides over the past few years revealed that friends, family members and co-workers often ...

In December, the Government of Canada unveiled the Protecting Victims Act, which it billed as “one of the most consequential reforms of the Criminal Code in a generation.” Also known as Bill C-16, the ...

Terrorist attacks, whether by individuals or groups, are usually followed by attempts to explain the rationale and causes behind them. The core reasons, ...

Domestic abusers harangue their partners in long sessions of verbal abuse. These are not fights; they're attacks. Haranguing is a tactic of coercive control in domestic abuse.

Nearly every country in Africa has a law prohibiting violence against women and girls. Feminist movements have driven this ...