Pulling the Strings: Conversations About Coercive Control

Episode 1: Defining and Measuring

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In our first episode, we unpack what coercive control actually is, how we can really understand it, and why it matters. 

To help us we welcome our special guest Dr Lindsay Kelland. Lindsay is a feminist philosopher based in the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, Rhodes University (South Africa) where her research covers gender, sexualities, and sexual violence. To find out more about Lindsay’s work click here.

We also hear from members of the VAMHN Lived Experience Advisory Group (LEAG) and our LEAG Coordinator Lisa Ward. To find out more about the VAMHN LEAG click here.

You can click the links below to access some of the resources we

talk about in this episode, as well as some additional resources from our guest:

Resources: 

  • The paper we discuss in the episode containing the 13-item
    • subscale on coercive control: Dutton, Mary Ann., Goodman, L., Schmidt, R.J. (2006). Development and Validation of a Coercive Control Measure for Intimate
    Partner Violence: Final Technical Report. Click here to access: ⁠https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/214438.pdf⁠ 

    Books:

    • Evan Stark (2012) Looking Beyond Domestic Violence: Policing Coercive Control, Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations, 12:2, 199-217, ⁠DOI: 10.1080/15332586.2012.725016

      • Academic Papers:

      • Anderson, K. L. (2009). Gendering Coercive Control. Violence Against Women, 15(12), 1444-1457. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801209346837
      • Beck, C.J.A. and Raghavan, C. (2010), Intimate Partner Abuse Screening In Custody Mediation: The Importance Of Assessing Coercive Control. Family Court Review, 48:
        • 555-565. Click here to access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2010.01329.x 
      • Crossman, K. A., Hardesty, J. L., & Raffaelli, M. (2016). “He
        • Could Scare Me Without Laying a Hand on Me”: Mothers’ Experiences of Nonviolent Coercive Control During Marriage and After Separation. Violence Against Women,
        22(4), 454-473. Click here to access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077801215604744 
      • Hardesty, J.L., Crossman, K.A., Haselschwerdt, M.L.,
        • Raffaelli, M., Ogolsky, B.G. and Johnson, M.P. (2015), Toward a Standard Approach to Operationalizing Coercive Control and Classifying Violence Types. Fam Relat, 77: 833-843. Click here to access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12201
      • Myhill, A., & Hohl, K. (2019). The “Golden Thread”: Coercive Control and Risk Assessment for Domestic Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 34(21-22), 4477-4497. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260516675464
      • Stark, E., & Hester, M. (2019). Coercive Control: Update and Review. Violence Against Women, 25(1), 81-104. Click here to access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801218816191 
      • Tanha, M., Beck, C. J. A., Figueredo, A. J., & Raghavan, C.
        • (2010). Sex Differences in Intimate Partner Violence and the Use of Coercive Control as a Motivational Factor for Intimate Partner Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25(10), 1836-1854. Click here to access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260509354501


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