This paper reports on findings from a scoping literature review on the impacts of coercive control reforms on women victim-survivors. Since the introduction of coercive control laws in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015, Australia is following suit, with New South Wales (NSW) being the first state to pass a standalone offence of coercive control in 2022, with more states and territories soon to follow. These reforms are argued to contribute toward a paradigm shift that will improve justice and practice responses to male-pattern sexual, domestic and family violence (SDFV) against women. Against this backdrop, it is timely to examine these claims through a scoping literature review in order to identify implications for Australian policy makers and frontline social work and human services professionals working toward systemic change. The search strategy focused on peer-reviewed literature between 2017-2023, within Australia and the UK. Screening produced twenty-six articles for descriptive and thematic analysis. Three themes emerged from thematic analysis of the finding’s sections of the sources related to systemic change, holistic resourcing, and unintended impacts of coercive control reform. The findings reveal coercive control as one of the most common antecendents to domestic homicide pointing to a feminist standpoint of systemic change as being essential for how we view, understand and respond to male-patterned violence. Furthermore, the findings elucidate the unintended impacts of law reform indicating social work practitioners may have a larger part to play than what is currently understood. Further understanding of the paradigm shift required for systemic change is essential, in particular how social work practice driven by intersectional analysis and responses may embrace and implement a more effective systemic response to male violence against women from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.