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Coercive Control
Barlow, Charlotte
Coercive Control / Charlotte Barlow, Sandra Walklate - 1st edition - Routledge, 2022 - ix,112 pages,21cm. - Criminology in Focus .
Includes bibliographies and index
The books discussed the historical emergence of this concept, who its main proponents have been, and how its effects have been understood. It considers the role of coercive control in making sense of women pathway into crime as well as their experiences of it as victims. Coercive control has been presented predominantly as a gendered process and consideration is given in this book to the efficacy of this assumption as well as the extent to which the concept makes sense for a wide constituency of marginalised women. In recent years, much energy has been given to efforts to criminalise coercive control and the concerns that these efforts generate are discussed in detail, alongside what the limitations to such initiatives might be.
9780367894269
Criminal anthropology
Criminal Behavior
Female Offenders Psychology
364.24 / BAR
Coercive Control / Charlotte Barlow, Sandra Walklate - 1st edition - Routledge, 2022 - ix,112 pages,21cm. - Criminology in Focus .
Includes bibliographies and index
The books discussed the historical emergence of this concept, who its main proponents have been, and how its effects have been understood. It considers the role of coercive control in making sense of women pathway into crime as well as their experiences of it as victims. Coercive control has been presented predominantly as a gendered process and consideration is given in this book to the efficacy of this assumption as well as the extent to which the concept makes sense for a wide constituency of marginalised women. In recent years, much energy has been given to efforts to criminalise coercive control and the concerns that these efforts generate are discussed in detail, alongside what the limitations to such initiatives might be.
9780367894269
Criminal anthropology
Criminal Behavior
Female Offenders Psychology
364.24 / BAR