Cassandra Wiener, Coercive Control Researcher

About Cassandra

I am a researcher in the School of Law at the University of Sussex, taking up the post of Senior Lecturer in Law at City, University of London in September 2021. 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 .

Law Reform

UK

WE DID IT! The government has announced that post separation abuse will be a criminal offence...see more

Australia

NSW might criminalise coercive control: Professor Evan Stark and I argue that it should...see more

More law reform

'A woman wears the same outfit every day, rarely goes out, and continually paces back and forth in a small space. Imagine how hard it would be to explain her behaviour if you were unable to reveal that the woman is confined in a jail cell….Start with the cage, and everything changes.'

Evan Stark