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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. 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 pro

Children of Coercive Control

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      Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
      Published 1 May 2024
      ISBN-13 9780197587096
      978-0197587096
      ISBN-10 0197587097
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      Age groups: adolescents

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      Book Synopsis
      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. 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 pro

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