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040 _aAFVC
100 _aElliot, Karla
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245 _aCoercive control
_cKarla Elliot
260 _aMelbourne, Vic :
_bMonash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre,
_c2017
300 _aelectronic document (2 pages) ; PDF file
520 _aCoercive control, also known as psychological abuse, emotional abuse, mental torture and patriarchal or intimate terrorism, is a concept used to describe the broad context of intimate partner abuse. Buzawa, Buzawa and Stark (2017: 105) describe coercive control as ‘a strategic course of gender-based abuse in which some combination of physical and sexual violence, intimidation, degradation, isolation, control and arbitrary violations of liberty are used to subjugate a partner and deprive her of basic rights and resources’. Coercive control is a gendered pattern of abuse: it refers to control and coercion exercised over women by a male (current or former) intimate partner. Stark (2009) argues that coercive control is the primary strategy used by men to subordinate female intimate partners. Research into coercive control in same-sex relationships remains limited. The theory of coercive control stemmed from the realisation that tactics of abuse in intimate relationships and effects on the victim were similar to those found in situations involving, for example, hostages and POWs (see for example Jones 1994; Okun 1986; Serum 1979; Singer 1979). The work of Evan Stark (2007b; 2009) has been key to the subsequent development of the theory of coercive control. (Author's introduction). This is a 2-page brief explaining the concept. Record #6810
650 _aCOERCIVE CONTROL
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650 _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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650 _aEMOTIONAL ABUSE
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650 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
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650 4 _aPSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE
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651 _aINTERNATIONAL
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651 4 _aAUSTRALIA
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830 _aResearch brief (Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre)
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856 _uhttps://bridges.monash.edu/articles/Coercive_Control/8379080
942 _2ddc
_cBRIEFING