TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katz,Emma
TI  - Coercive control in children's and mothers' lives
T2  - Interpersonal violence series
SN  - 9780190922245
U1  - 362.8292 KAT 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Family violence
KW  - Domestic relations
KW  - Control (Psychology)
KW  - Women
KW  - Abuse of
KW  - Child abuse
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "If a situation of coercive control was a political system, it would be a dictatorship. The coercive control perpetrator is the dictator. Dictators, able to behave with deceptive politeness on the international stage, are defined by their cruel, ruthless, and paranoid tyranny over their own people. Domestic opposition is usually banned. Contact with people from other countries is heavily restricted. Citizens are likely to be under constant surveillance. Compliance is instilled through terror and threat of punishment. In other words, life with a coercive control perpetrator is like living under one of the most oppressive governments on Earth. And there are millions of these mini dictatorships happening right now on ordinary streets. Quite probably (if you live on one), on your street too"--
ER  -