Coercive Control

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.

• PrefaceIntroduction 1. A New Law in the Land Part I: The DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REVOLUTION 2. The Revolution Unfolds3. The Revolution Stalls Part II: THE THEORY AND THE MODEL 4. Up to Inequality5. The Theory of Coercive Control6. 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 Kill11. Theresa Craig: The "Known Unknown"12. The Crown vs. Sally Challen: Entrapment and Liberty Part V: CONCLUSION 13. The Coercive Control Context14. Freedom is not Free

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