Coercive Control and the Criminal Law - (Wiener Cassandra)(Paperback)

Taylor & Francis Ltd 2022 Taylor & Francis Ltd 204 Wiener, Cassandra (Senior Lecturer, The City Law School, City, Univers Paperback / softback

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.