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 .
Law Reform
UK
The government took our amend to the DA Bill 2021 - post separation abuse will be a criminal offence...see more
Interview with Sarah Gorrell on BBC Radio Sussex, 9 March 2021
Australia
Australia is considering coercive control laws see my interview with Seven News. Play news clip
My article with @Tanya Palmer ‘Telling the Wrong Stories: Rough Sex, Coercive Control and the Criminal Law’ is out - see December issue of Child and Family Law Quarterly. Part of a brilliant special issue edited by @Hannah_Bows and @jojohjhj Jonathan Herring or available open access here
Research Publications
Cassandra Wiener
Marilyn McMahon and Paul McGorrery, (eds) Criminalising Non-Physical Family Violence: Coercive Control and Autonomy Crimes (Springer International)
Cassandra Wiener
‘Seeing What is Invisible in Plain Sight: Policing Coercive Control’
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
Opinion Pieces
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
Crime Research Centre & Centre for Gender Studies Roundtable to Mark 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence
25 November 2021
Freeman Building University of Sussex and Online
‘Creating a space to think about activism against gender based violence’
Cassandra Wiener – Panel Member