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Over the past decade, there has been a paradigm shift away from understanding intimate partner violence (IPV) as comprising single discrete instances of physical abuse towards a more comprehensive and accurate paradigm based on coercive control: a model of abuse that encompasses a range of strategies or tactics used by men to dominate individual women in their personal life. Despite this shift, domestic violence laws continue to coalesce around an incident-specific focus and weigh the severity of abuse by the level of force used or injury inflicted. This chapter considers how coercive control as a criminological concept has become central to contemporary understandings of domestic abuse and intimate partner homicide. It discusses how the concept of coercive control challenges the focus on physical injury in the development of risk assessments for domestic abuse and intimate partner homicide …