Coercive Control Monitoring Report December 2025

Key findings:

• Between 1 July 2024 and 31 December 2025, NSW Police recorded 473 incidents of coercive control. 
• On average, each coercive control incident involved four distinct controlling behaviours. The most frequently recorded controlling behaviours were:  
  • harassment, monitoring or tracking (recorded in 56% of coercive control incidents)
  • threats or intimidation (53%)
  • financial abuse (52%)
  • shaming, degrading, or humiliating (46%).

• 59% of coercive control incidents were accompanied by another offence type, most frequently: intimidation or stalking (35%), domestic assault (34%) or malicious damage (12%).

• 94% of victims were women, and 92% of incidents involved a female victim and male alleged offender.. Nearly half the victims (47%) had a prior history of domestic violence recorded by police, and 31% had previously experienced domestic violence involving the same alleged offender.

• 23% of victims of coercive control had an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order (ADVO) in place at the time of the incident, while a further 56% had an ADVO issued following the event.

• Between July 2024 and December 2025, 22 coercive control charges were laid. Of these:

  • 11 were initiated by NSW Police, and 11 were initiated by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
  • Four were initiated in the last 3 months (September-December 2025)
  • Five charges had been finalised in court by 31 December 2025: four were withdrawn by the prosecution, and one was proven after a guilty plea and received an Intensive Correction Order.