Cassandra Wiener (Senior Lecturer, The City Law School, City, Unive

Coercive Control and the Criminal Law

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers how a phenomenon as complex as coercive control can be criminalised. This work reviews recent domestic abuse criminal law reform in the UK and Ireland. In particular, it defines coercive control, and explains why using traditional criminal law approaches to prosecute it does not work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 235mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781032422879
• ISBN-10: 1032422874
• Artikelnr.: 65917800

Autorenporträt

Cassandra Wiener is a senior lecturer in law at The City Law School, City, University of London. She is an expert in the criminal law on coercive control and advises governments and activists around the world on the doctrinal implications of domestic abuse law reform.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Assessing Coercive Control Law Reform
Chapter 1: the Architecture and Prevalence of Coercive Control - Seeing
What Is 'Invisible In Plain Sight'
Chapter 2: Domestic Assaults and Coercive Control
Chapter 3: 'An Unpleasant, Closed-Off World' - Domestic Stalking and the
Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Chapter 4: From Reluctant Sex to Rape - Domestic Sexual Abuse and the
Sexual Offences Act 2003
Chapter 5: the Serious Crime Act 2015, s 76
Chapter 6: the Scottish Approach
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Index