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Coercive Control, a major update of the seminal first edition, contains painful first-hand accounts of psychological, sexual, financial, and physical abuse of women. Stark identifies the elements of coercive control and the harms they pose to women and their rights. New laws, policies, and approaches are proposed for supporting perpetrators and victims. The overall effect is uplifting because the numerous real life stories emphasize survival and endurance.
List 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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Sweeping aside outdated, entrenched views of woman abuse, Coercive Control emphasizes the importance of addressing women's diminishment and subordination in personal life as part of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.
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This edition is crucial for women's studies, psychology, and social studies.
