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    • Evan Stark: Re-presenting Battered Women: Coercive Control and the Defense of Liberty
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    • Cassandra Weiner: Seeing What is ‘Invisible in Plain Sight’: Policing Coercive Control
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Coercive Control

Controlling and Psychological Intimate Partner Abuse

    Breaking News:  New York  Is The First State In The USA To Introduce A Coercive Control Bill

    Breaking News: New York Is The First State In The USA To Introduce A Coercive Control Bill

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi May 13, 2019May 13, 2019

    With the support and leadership of Senator Kevin Parker, The Campaign To End Coercive Control In New York State has introduced the first Coercive Control bill in the USA — Bill Number S5306.

    WHAT IS COERCIVE CONTROL

    According to the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence:
    “Domestic violence comprises a range of behaviors beyond physical and emotional abuse. Abusers often use violence, intimidation, degradation and isolation to deprive victims of their rights to physical security, dignity and respect. Evan Stark has been encouraging the use of “coercive control” to describe a course of oppressive behavior grounded in gender-based privilege. While all forms of abuse are about power and control, coercive control is a strategic form of ongoing oppression and terrorism that invades all arenas of women’s activity by limiting access to money and other basic resources. In addition, few elements of coercive control are currently considered criminal, or are only crimes when committed against strangers, which further complicates this issue within the context of domestic violence.”

    BACKGROUND

    We are campaigning for domestic violence laws to be strengthened and modernized in New York and throughout the country to reflect the reality of domestic abuse in all its guises and better protect women and girls. We are a group of survivors, campaigners, activists and experts. We know this will save lives and money.

    Prior to the pioneering coercive control law in England and Wales, only 3 out of every 100 men reported for domestic violence were convicted and almost none were jailed (Aronson Fontes and Stark 2017). Abusers reported for 50 or more offences were no more likely to be punished than those who committed a single offence (Aronson Fontes and Stark 2017). The same injustices occur in the USA with the same victims and perpetrators repeatedly reporting to Police and other front-line professionals. Many blame the victims for “staying” rather than focusing on the abuser and their abusive behaviour. Most wait for an assault with clear evidence before acting and the police and court system continue to trivialise and minimise the abuse.

    THE BOTTOM LINE?

    Despite all the resources allocated to domestic violence, most professionals do not understand coercive control and as a consequence US victims and their children remain unsafe and at risk because their abusive partners are not held accountable. 

    THE FACTS AND EVIDENCE

    Between 2000-2006, 3200 American soldiers were killed in combat. During that same period, more than three times as many women died at the hands of their husbands and boyfriends (Rachel Louise Snyder 2019)

    • One woman is murdered every 16 hours in the US by a current or former partner.
    • Some of the most dangerous cases happen when domestic violence, stalking and coercive control co-occur.
    • These ‘murders in slow motion’ are preventable. Early identification and intervention is vital to saving lives and saving money.

    THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE FOR A WOMAN AND CHILDREN IS THE HOME.

    Currently, domestic violence laws focus on and respond to individual incidents according to the level of physical harm. Consequently, coercive control, where frequent low-level violence is accompanied by the other tactics, has no legal standing. Few elements of coercive control are currently considered criminal, or are only crimes when committed against strangers. 

    WAKE UP CALL: COERCIVE CONTROL SIGNIFICANTLY CORRELATES WITH MURDER

    The domestic homicide rate has doubled in New York. Most of these cases, if not all, are coercive control cases. Many women do not report as they know there is little point and when they do 95% of the reported cases have no injury, and so they are treated as low level (Stark 2017). A prosecution or conviction are rare, and plea bargaining commonplace.  

    We must look beyond the bruises. Domestic violence is not just about assault. The cumulative effect of 1000 cuts is devastating. Many women do not report until the behaviour has escalated and there may be injuries. For many this is too late.

    Criminalizing these forms of intimate partner violence would send a powerful signal and give victims confidence to come forward earlier, leading to early intervention and prevention.

    To support this historic bill that will save lives, please contact your State Senator and tell them to join Senator Parker as a co-sponsor. Find your State Senator contact information here.

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    Serena Williams calls financial abuse a form of domestic violence in a new video

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi October 14, 2018

    Serena Williams is using her celebrity to spotlight a common but little understood form of domestic violence: financial abuse. The…

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    Serena Williams Raises Awareness of Financial Abuse in Powerful New Video

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi October 14, 2018October 14, 2018

    Rachel Hosie | @rachel_hosie | Thursday 4 October 2018 11:55 Financial abuse is an invisible weapon’ Domestic abuse affects one in four women and…

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    Evan Stark, Rutgers University, Author, “Coercive Control”

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi September 18, 2018October 14, 2018
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    No Shots Fired

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

    In coercive control, men use guns to threaten, manipulate, and traumatize their intimate partners, without ever pulling a trigger. BY JENNIFER…

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    Understanding Coercive Control with Professor Evan Stark

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 16, 2018August 16, 2018
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    New York State – Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence – Interview with Dr. Evan Stark

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 16, 2018August 16, 2018

    Abusive Partners Coercive Control Domestic violence comprises a range of behaviors beyond physical and emotional abuse. Abusers often use violence,…

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    NY Times: With Coercive Control, the Abuse Is Psychological

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018

    BY ABBY ELLIN | JULY 11, 2016 12:45 PM | Lisa Fontes’s ex-boyfriend never punched her, or pulled her hair. But…

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    Pyschology Today: Controlling Your Partner Is Illegal, But Not in the U.S.

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018

    Lisa Aronson Fontes Ph.D. | Invisible Chains | February 17, 2017 Co authored with Evan Stark, PhD., author of Coercive Control: How Men…

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    Huffington Post: It Felt Like Love (But It Was Coercive Control)

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018

    By Lisa Aronson Fontes, PhD | 06/10/2015 | As my marriage of two decades withered into a separation, my charming newly-divorced…

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    Professor Evan Stark: Coercive Control and Children

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018
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  • Survivor Testimony

    Amelia’s story. A real-life story of coercive control and domestic abuse.

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018

    The sexual abuse is the hardest part for me to think or talk about but I know that I shouldn’t…

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  • NewsUK Law

    UK Government: Coercive or controlling behaviour now a crime

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018

    From:Home Office and The Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP | 29 December 2015 |  Victims who would otherwise be subjected to sustained patterns…

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    The Cut: A Domestic-Violence Expert on Eric Schneiderman and ‘Coercive Control’

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018

    In coercive control abuse, you have a range of acts over time, a broad range of non-consensual and non-reciprocal tactics…

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    Psychology Today: When Relationship Abuse Is Hard to Recognize – Signs of coercive control are hard to spot; support and information will help.

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018

    People subject to coercive control grow anxious and afraid. Coercive control strips away their independence, sense of self, and basic rights, such…

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    The New Yorker: Four Women Accuse New York’s Attorney General of Physical Abuse

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 15, 2018

    Evan Stark, a forensic social worker and an emeritus professor at Rutgers, is the author of a landmark book, “Coercive…

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    Research in Practice: Coercive control: the driving force behind domestic abuse

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 15, 2018

    It’s not a simple matter either; using controlling or coercive behaviour is a deliberate act which reduces an individual’s space…

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    WebMD: What Is Coercive Control in a Relationship?

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 15, 2018

    But in general, the abused are female and their tormenters, men. The abused are usually not outwardly passive. Many are…

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    Psychology Today: “She Has No Money; She’ll Come Crawling Back.” NOT!

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 16, 2018

    By Lisa Aronson Fontes Ph.D. | July 10, 2016 | He takes her paycheck and she has to beg him…

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    Cosmopolitan UK Edition: 10 ways to spot coercive control | Abuse doesn’t have to be physical.

    by coercivecontrol_x17tsi August 15, 2018August 15, 2018

    By SOPHIE GODDARD | July 24, 2018 | Nearly three years ago, the government introduced a new domestic abuse offence of…

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Serena Williams Video on Financial Abuse in Coercive Control and Domestic Violence Relationships

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtsMtP5Wx08

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