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Excited to announce the launch of my monograph Coercive Control and the Criminal Law published by Routledge and available to order here.

Coercive Control and the criminal law
Cassandra Wiener

About Cassandra

I am a Senior Lecturer in Law at City, University of London.  I am also co-founder and trustee of the Treebeard Trust.

I specialise  in coercive control and the criminal law. I advise governments and activists around the world on the doctrinal implications of domestic abuse law reform, and through the Treebeard Trust support transformative initiatives to empower women affected by violence .  I also run the Criminal Justice and Human Rights Centre at City, University of London. 

City University of London
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Treebeard Trust

Law Reform

 Operation Bluestone/Soteria is happening– glad to have been a part of the team working to transform the police response to rape… my guidelines on the investigation of rape in the context of coercive control and strategic advice on where to locate domestic rape in force are now operational across all forces in England and Wales.

Research Publications

Coercive control as a framework for responding to male partner abuse in the UK

Evan Stark & Cassandra Wiener

Coercive Control as a Framework for Responding to Male Partner Abuse in the UK: Opportunities and Challenges

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence

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Cassandra Wiener

Defining Coercive Control in Law: Problems and Possibilities

 

The Edward Elgar Handbook of Domestic Abuse

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Cassandra Wiener

Telling the wrong stories: Rough sex, coercive control and the criminal law

Child and Family Law Quarterly

Criminalising Coercive Control

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‘From Social Construct to Legal Paradigm: the New Offence of Coercive or Controlling Behaviour in England and Wales’

 

Criminalising  Coercive Control, Family Violence and the Criminal Law

Howard Journal of Crime and Justice

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‘Seeing What is Invisible in Plain Sight: Policing Coercive Control’

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice

Opinion Pieces

Comment with Cassandra Wiener, 3 September 2023

‘He took every penny’: the women left with a debt mountain by coercive partners

The Guardian

Cassandra Wiener and Anna Minton, 29 March 2022

Domestic abuse in the UK: scrapping the local connection test is a start but it's not enough

The Conversation

Comment with Cassandra Wiener, 15 February 2022

Why victims of domestic abuse don’t leave – four experts explain

The Conversation

Tanya Palmer and Cassandra Wiener, 17 December 2021

How Claims of 'Consensual Rough Sex' Hide Abuse and Coercive Control from Courts

The Conversation

Events

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Sentencing of women who kill their abuser and the effectiveness of defences 
Clare Wade KC and Harriet Wistrich spoke about Clare Wade KC’s recent review of Domestic Homicide Sentencing and the government’s response. 

9:30 – 13:30 10 July 2023

The City Law School
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