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Podcast: Slam the Gavel
Episode: Evan Stark, Ph.D., MSW Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University discusses his book, "Coercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life
Description: Excellent interview with Evan Stark Ph.D, MSW is a sociologist, forensic social worker, widely published author and researcher with an international reputation for his innovative work on the legal, policy and health dimensions of interpersonal violence, including its effects on children.
Dr. Stark's award winning book, Coercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life (Oxford 2007) has played a major role in redefining domestic violence internationally and is one basis for new offense of "coercive and controlling behavior," in the England, Scotland, Ireland and Australia and elsewhere.
A co-founder of an early shelter for battered women in New...