NCJ Number
233299
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 16 Issue: 12 Dated: December 2010 Pages: 1412-1423
Date Published
December 2010
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This article reexamines data with women who have experienced domestic violence to examine the way in which coercive control operates.
Abstract
This article considers how survivors of domestic violence negotiate the unreality of the world of the perpetrator to survive and the impact this has on their psychological well-being. Utilizing recent debates about coercive control and a reframing of domestic violence as a liberty crime, this article examines women's accounts of negotiating coercion and control. It presents data collected from oral history narrative interviews with women who have experienced domestic violence, as well as incidents of abuse recounted to the author while working with abused women, and reanalyzes those accounts in light of the theory of coercive control. (Published Abstract)