There is a significant lack of regulation protecting domestic violence victims from emotional abuse, adding to the incomplete legal response to domestic violence in the Unites States. Fagan shows how the law leaves emotional abuse victims unprotected and how these shortcomings can be addressed by looking towards other areas of law that establish protections from nonphysical abuse like those imposed on workplace harassment, cyberbullying, and the United Kingdom’s Serious Crimes Act.
Tara M. Fagan, The Bruise No One Sees: How Regulations of Workplace Harassment, Cyberbullying, and the Serious Crimes Act Can Be Used to Establish Protections for Emotional Abuse, 28 J. Gender, Race & Just. 399 (2025).