The Coercive Control of Children, 1st Edition

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.The Coercive Control of Children 1st Edition is written by Evan Stark and published by Oxford University Press. ISBNs for The Coercive Control of Children are 9780197587119, 0197587119 and the print ISBNs are 9780197587096, 0197587097. Additional ISBNs include 9780197587102, 9780197587126.