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Unveiling how coercive control weaponizes and devastates children’s lives.

Children of Coercive Control

$144.84

  • Hardcover

    400 pages

  • Release Date

    30 April 2024

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Summary

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 he…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780197587096
ISBN-10:0197587097
Author:Evan Stark
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:Oxford University Press Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:30 April 2024
Weight:680g
Dimensions:56mm x 160mm x 224mm
Series:Interpersonal Violence
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Children of Coercive Control by Evan Stark - ISBN: 9780197587096
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About The Author

Evan Stark

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.

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