Children of Coercive Control
Children of Coercive Control by Evan Stark, published by Oxford University Press in 2023, is a comprehensive examination of the impact of coercive control on children. This 400-page book delves into how coercive control serves as a critical factor in child abuse and homicide, particularly outside of war zones. Stark extends his analysis of interpersonal violence to focus on children, providing a working model that illustrates the dynamics and consequences of coercive control through real-life cases from his forensic practice.
In this edition, readers will find a detailed exploration of the ways in which coercive control manifests in the lives of children, often in conjunction with the control exerted over women. Stark discusses cases where children are manipulated as tools in the coercive control of their mothers, as well as instances where mothers may harm their children in an effort to protect them. By addressing the criminal aspects of child maltreatment, Stark challenges prevailing assumptions about the roots of child abuse, advocating for a reevaluation of the responses from Child Welfare and Child Protection Services. This book is relevant for those interested in family dynamics, social services, and public policy related to child welfare.
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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.
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