Despite its great achievements, the domestic violence revolution is stalled, Evan Stark argues, a provocative conclusion he documents by showing that interventions have failed to improve womens long-term safety in relationships or to hold perpetrators accountable. Stark traces this failure to a startling paradox, that the singular focus on violence against women masks an even more devastating reality. In millions of abusive relationships, men use a largely unidentified form of subjugation that more closely resembles kidnapping or indentured servitude than assault. He calls this pattern coercive control. Drawing on sources that range from FBI statistics and film to dozens of actual cases from his thirty years of experience as an award-winning researcher, advocate, and forensic expert, Stark shows in terrifying detail how men can use coercive control to extend their dominance over time and through social space in ways that subvert women's autonomy, isolate them, and infiltrate the most intimate corners of their lives. Against this backdrop, Stark analyzes the cases of three women tried for crimes committed in the context of abuse, showing that their reactions are only intelligible when they are reframed as victims of coercive control rather than as battered wives. The story of physical and sexual violence against women has been told often. But this is the first book to show that most abused women who seek help do so because their rights and liberties have been jeopardized, not because they have been injured. The coercive control model Stark develops resolves three of the most perplexing challenges posed by abuse: why these relationships endure, why abused women develop a profile of problems seen among no other group of assault victims, and why the legal system has failed to win them justice. Elevating coercive control from a second-class misdemeanor to a human rights violation, Stark explains why law, policy, and advocacy must shift its focus to emphasize how coercive control jeopardizes women's freedom in everyday life. Fiercely argued and eminently readable, Stark's work is certain to breathe new life into the domestic violence revolution.

Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence)

Politics & Social Sciences

Stark, Evan

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters, shows how "domestic violence" is neither primarily domestic nor necessarily violent, but a pattern of controlling behaviors more akin to terrorism and hostage-taking. Drawing on court records, interviews, and FBI statistics, Stark details coercive strategies that men use to deny women their very personhood, from "beeper games" to food logs to micromanaging dress, speech, sexual activity, and work. Stark urges us to move beyond the injury model and focus on the real victimization that allows men to violate women's human rights with impunity. Provocative and brilliantly argued, Coercive Control reframes abuse as a liberty crime rather than a crime of assault and points the way to bringing "real" equality for women in line with their formal rights to personhood and citizenship, freedom and safety.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

The Coercive Control of Children extends Evan Stark's path-breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone, as well as of the sexual abuse, denigration, exploitation, isolation and subordination of children. The book provides a working model of the coercive control of children and illustrates its dynamics and consequences with dramatic cases drawn from the headlines and Dr. Stark's forensic practice. The cases include those in which the coercive control of children runs in tandem with the coercive control of women, where children are "weaponized" in the coercive control of their mother and cases where abused mothers harm their children to survive or protect them from worse. By highlighting a criminal cause of child maltreatment and a plausible justice response, Evan Stark challenges the common assumptions that child abuse and neglect fall on a continuum of problems rooted in maternal deficits, immaturity, poverty, and environmental stressors as well as the combination of Child Welfare and Child Protection Services that currently provide the ameliorative response.

Children of Coercive Control (Interpersonal Violence)

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.\nSweeping 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.

Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE SERIES)

Psychology & Counseling

Identifies forms of sexual abuse and offers advice on how to get help and how to avoid such abuse.

Everything you need to know about sexual abuse (The Need to know library)

Self-Help

Abuse

Rosen Pub. Group

Discusses facts about woman and child abuse and describes what victims of abuse are doing to stop it.

Everything You Need to Know About Family Violence (The Need to Know Library)

Sexual Health

Examines the phenomenon of street gangs, the reasons people join them, the danger they can hold, and ways of avoiding getting involved with them.

Everything You Need to Know about Street Gangs (Need to Know Library)

The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.

Identifies forms of sexual abuse and offers advice on how to get help and how to avoid such abuse

Everything You Need to Know About Sexual Abuse (The Need to Know Library)

Teen & Young Adult

Holly, Marsha

Social Issues

Todo Lo Que Necesitas Saber Sobre Pandillas (Helping Books in Spanish) (Spanish Edition)

Everything You Need to Know About Sexual Abuse (Need to Know Library)

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Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence)

Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence)

Children of Coercive Control (Interpersonal Violence)

Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE SERIES)

Everything you need to know about sexual abuse (The Need to know library)

Everything You Need to Know About Family Violence (The Need to Know Library)

Everything You Need to Know about Street Gangs (Need to Know Library)

Everything You Need to Know About Sexual Abuse (The Need to Know Library)

Todo Lo Que Necesitas Saber Sobre Pandillas (Helping Books in Spanish) (Spanish Edition)

Everything You Need to Know About Sexual Abuse (Need to Know Library)