Children of Coercive Control 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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: The Context for Coercive Control
Ch. 1 In the Beginning: There Oughta be a Law
Ch. 2 The Abused Woman and "The Invisible Man"
Ch. 3 The Old Model: Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
Ch. 4 Nicholson v. Williams
Part II: The Coercive Control of Children: The New Model
Ch. 5 Violence, Sexual Assault and Psychological Abuse
Ch. 6 Isolation, Intimidation, and Control
Ch. 7 Child Abuse as Tangential Spouse Abuse
Part III: Children of Coercive Control
Ch. 8 The Murder of Daniel Pelke
Ch. 9 Rachel and her Children
Ch. 10 Carmen Barahona
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.
Oxford University Press
Pub Date: December 27, 2023
2.2" H x 8.8" L x 6.3" W
400 pages
Hardcover