

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


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.


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

Evan Stark & Cassandra Wiener
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence

Cassandra Wiener
Defining Coercive Control in Law: Problems and Possibilities
The Edward Elgar Handbook of Domestic Abuse

Cassandra Wiener
Telling the wrong stories: Rough sex, coercive control and the criminal law
familylaw.co.uk

Cassandra Wiener
Telling the wrong stories: Rough sex, coercive control and the criminal law
Child and Family Law Quarterly

Cassandra Wiener
Criminalising Coercive Control, Family Violence and the Criminal Law

Cassandra Wiener
‘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