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Evan Stark, Ph.D.
Evan Stark (1942 – 2024) was an American sociologist whose groundbreaking research refined the theory of coercive control. He was also one of the founders of the New Haven Project for Battered Women, one of the first domestic violence shelters on the east coast.
Coercive control survivor and advocate Julie Levine is battling a rare blood cancer and she needs our support.
Coercive control is an act or a pattern of acts used by one person to harm, punish or frighten another person to secure psycho-emotional dominance.
CONNECTICUT STATE SENATOR ALEX KASSER is sponsoring Jennifer’s Law in honor of Jennifer Dulos in the 2021 Legislative session. The new bill will widen the definition of domestic abuse to include coercive control. “When women are the victims of abuse, they seek safety for themselves and their children. Often that means staying with the abuser because the danger of leaving is too great,” Sen….
Ireland’s first coercive control conviction highlights the importance of active bystanders. Judge Elma Sheahan sentenced 52-year-old Daniel Kane to 10.5 years in prison for coercive control, intimidation, and repeated assaults on his 43-year-old ex-partner. Kane’s campaign of domestic abuse took place over twenty months between 2018 and 2020. Coercive control is a pattern of acts used by one person to…
Since founding Narcissistic Abuse Rehab in 2019, I have worked with hundreds of victim-survivors from across the world. They come from every background, culture, profession, gender, and age group. Their professions vary from physicians to engineers to full-time parents. But, what they share is a particular kind of wound. One that left no visible evidence that anything had happened at…
Dr. Evan Stark, PhD, reveals that children are often secondary victims in coercive control regimes.