RT Article
T1 Untangling the concept of coercive control: theorizing domestic violent crime
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 18
IS 1
SP 7
OP 28
A1 Walby, Sylvia 1953-
A2 Towers, Jude
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1741293235
AB 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.
K1 Coercive control
K1 Crime Survey for England and Wales
K1 Domestic violence
K1 Domestic violent crime
K1 Gender
K1 Violence
DO 10.1177/1748895817743541