Representing The Domestic Violence Survivor: Critical Legal Issues; Effective Safety Strategies by Barry Goldstein, J.D., and Elizabeth Liu, J.D. We recommend this work to lawyers who are representing domestic abuse victims. Update added March, 2025. Lundy Bancroft has now been exposed as a predator. It is uncanny how well a predator can masquerade as being… Continue reading “Representing The Domestic Violence Survivor: Critical Legal Issues; Effective Safety Strategies”
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Coercion and control are the very heart of how an abuser operates: they’re not an added extra.
Viewing coercive control as just one more manifestation of domestic abuse is to utterly misunderstand what is happening in a victim’s life, says Jane Monckton-Smith [Internet Archive link], senior lecturer in criminology and an expert in coercive control at the university of Gloucestershire. She argues that coercion and control are the very heart of how… Continue reading Coercion and control are the very heart of how an abuser operates: they’re not an added extra.
