Book Review: In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence. By Kristin Bumiller. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008, 215 pp., $79.95 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). A Typology of Domestic Violence: Intimate Terrorism, Violent Resistance, and Situational Couple Violence. By Michael P. Johnson. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2008, 161 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). Violent Partners: A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse. By Linda G. Mills. New York: Basic Books, 2008, 298 pp., $26.95 (hardback). Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life. By Evan Stark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 464 pp., $35.00 (hardback)

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-281
Author(s):  
Lisa D. Brush
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Intimate Terrorism ◽  
Couple Violence ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Situational Couple Violence

scholarly journals Untangling the concept of coercive control: Theorizing domestic violent crime

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Walby ◽  
Jude Towers
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Intimate Terrorism ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
Couple Violence ◽  
Situational Couple Violence

The article assesses three approaches to domestic violence: two that use the concept of ‘coercive control’ and one that uses ‘domestic violent crime’. These are: Stark’s concept of coercive control; Johnson’s distinction between situational couple violence and intimate terrorism, in which coercive control is confined to the latter; and that of domestic violent crime, in which all physical violence is conceptualized as coercive and controlling. The article assesses these three approaches on seven issues. It offers original analysis of data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales concerning variations in repetition and seriousness in domestic violent crime. It links escalation in domestic violent crime to variations in the economic resources of the victim. It concludes that the concept of domestic violent crime is preferable to that of coercive control when seeking to explain variations in domestic violence.

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