Coercive control is the most common and devastating means used to subjugate women in personal and family life. Drawing on FBI statistics, health records, interviews with victims and perpetrators, and forensic analysis of dramatic cases from the author's experience, Evan Stark, a leading proponent and scholar, provides the authoritative description of coercive control. The book identifies its elements, dynamics, and consequences, including the harms it poses to liberty rights and privacy rights; and proposes effective interventions, including new laws and means of policing and supporting perpetrators and victims.
Sweeping aside outdated, entrenched views of woman abuse, Coercive Control emphasizes the importance of addressing women's diminishment and subordination in personal life as part of the global equity agenda.
ISBN-13: 9780197639986
Media Type: Hardcover(2nd ed.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 06-09-2023
Pages: 600
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Series: INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE SERIES
Evan Stark is a sociologist, forensic social worker and an award-winning researcher with an international reputation for his legal advocacy and innovative policy work on interpersonal violence. With his wife, Anne Flitcraft, MD, Dr. Stark co-founded an early shelter for abused women, co-directed the pioneering Yale Trauma Studies showing the significance of domestic violence for women's health and co-chaired a U.S. Surgeon General's Task Force on Domestic Violence and Women's Health.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. A New Law in the Land
Part I: The DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REVOLUTION
2. The Revolution Unfolds
3. The Revolution Stalls
Part II: THE THEORY AND THE MODEL
4. Up to Inequality
5. The Theory of Coercive Control
6. The Technology of Coercive Control
Part III: THE SPECTRUM OF COERCIVE CONTROL: MEASUREMENT AND PRACTICE
7. The Spectrum of Coercive Control
8 The Entrapment Enigma
9. Representing Battered Women
Part IV: COERCIVE CONTROL ON TRIAL
10. Donna Ballis: When Battered Women Kill
11. Theresa Craig: The "Known Unknown"
12. The Crown vs. Sally Challen: Entrapment and Liberty
Part V: CONCLUSION
13. The Coercive Control Context
14. Freedom is not Free
