Children of Coercive Control

Evan Stark (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-758709-6 (ISBN)

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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 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.

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.

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

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Interpersonal Violence
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 224 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-758709-7 / 0197587097
ISBN-13	978-0-19-758709-6 / 9780197587096
Zustand	Neuware