Criminalising coercive control : family violence and the criminal law / Marilyn McMahon and Paul McGorrery.

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Published: Singapore : Springer, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: The Harms And Wrongs Of Non-Physical Abuse
  • Chapter 1. Criminalising Coercive Control: An Introduction (Marilyn McMahon)
  • Chapter 2. The 'Coercive Control Framework': Making Law Work for Women (Evan Stark)
  • Chapter 3. Economic Abuse and Family Violence Across Cultures: Gendering Money and Assets Through Coercive Control (Supriya Singh)
  • Chapter 4. Coercive Control and Intimate Partner Homicide (Danielle Tyson)
  • Part 2: Fixing A 'Gap' In The Law?
  • Chapter 5. An Alternative Means of Prosecuting Domestic Abuse: Are Stalking Laws a Neglected Resource? (Marilyn McMahon)
  • Chapter 6. Evaluating Criminalisation as a Strategy in Relation to Non-Physical Family Violence (Julia Quilter)
  • Part 3: New Initiatives
  • Chapter 7. Ahead of Their Time? The Offences of Economic and Emotional Abuse in Tasmania, Australia (Kerryne Barwick)
  • Chapter 8. From Social Construct to Legal Innovation: The Offence of Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in England and Wales (Cassandra Wiener)
  • Chapter 9. The Making of the 'New Gold Standard': The Scottish Experience: The Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 (Marsha Scott)
  • Part 4: A Way Forward?
  • Chapter 10. A Comparative Evaluation of Offences: Criminalising Abusive Behaviour in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Tasmania (Vanessa Bettinson)
  • Chapter 11. Coercive Control as the Context for Intimate Partner Violence: The Challenge for the Legal System (Jane Wangmann)
  • Chapter 12. Alternative Constructions of a Family Violence Offence (Heather Douglas).