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Coercive Control

How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

Second Edition

Evan Stark

Publication Date - 01 September 2023

ISBN: 9780197639986

600 pages
Hardcover
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches

Description

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Sweeping aside outdated, entrenched views of woman abuse, Coercive Control emphasizes the importance of addressing women's diminishment and subordination in personal life as part of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.

New to this Edition

  • Reflects new research on violence against women and addressing coercive control
  • Includes a new introduction and a first chapter reflecting the political acceptance of coercive control
  • Describes two recent cases in which the author successfully used coercive control to win cases for women charged with homicide

Features

  • Provides an updated and authoritative presentation of the new framework for violence against women that has been adapted in many US states and by countries, law enforcement agencies, and women's advocates worldwide
  • Includes dramatic case-based illustrations that capture the range of strategies deployed to coerce and control women in personal and family life, including physical, sexual, psychological and economic abuse, intimidation, social isolation, and control
  • Shifts the emphasis in combatting abuse from physical harms to harms to dignity, liberty, and personhood and from the anti-violence agenda to the global equalities and gender justice agendas

About the Author(s)

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

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