{"id":4036,"date":"2024-04-11T19:59:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2024-04-11T20:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:24:42","slug":"evan-stark-82-dies-broadened-understanding-of-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=4036","title":{"rendered":"Evan Stark, 82, Dies; Broadened Understanding of Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term \u201ccoercion control\u201d to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.<\/p>\n

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Evan Stark, who studied domestic violence with his wife and then pioneered a concept called \u201ccoercive control,\u201d which describes the psychological and physical domination that abusers use to punish their partners, died on March 18 at his home in Woodbridge, Conn. He was 82.<\/p>\n

His wife, Dr. Anne Flitcraft, said the cause was most likely a heart attack that occurred while he was on a Zoom call with women\u2019s advocates in British Columbia.<\/p>\n

Through studies that began in 1979, Drs. Stark and Flitcraft became experts in intimate partner violence, sounding an alarm that battering \u2014 not car accidents or sexual assault \u2014 was the largest cause of injury that sent women to emergency rooms.<\/p>\n

But by talking to battered women as well as veterans who had experienced post-traumatic stress disorder from their treatment in the military, Dr. Stark began to understand that coercive control was a strategy that included violence but that also involved threats of beatings, isolating female victims from friends and family and cutting off their access to money, food, communication and transportation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLike assaults, coercive control undermines a victim\u2019s physical and psychological integrity,\u201d he wrote in \u201cCoercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life\u201d (2007). \u201cBut the main means used to establish control is the micro-regulation of everyday behaviors associated with stereotypic female roles, such as how women dress, cook, clean, socialize, care for their children or perform sexually.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Stark started a forensic social work practice in 1990 \u2014 a year later, he earned a master\u2019s of social work degree from Fordham University \u2014 and began to testify for victims in courts.<\/p>\n

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He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term \u201ccoercion control\u201d to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.Evan Stark, who studied domestic violence with his wife and then pioneered a concept called \u201ccoercive control,\u201d which describes the psychological and physical domination that abusers use to punish their partners, died on March 18 at his home in Woodbridge, Conn. He was 82.His wife, Dr. Anne Flitcraft, said the cause was most likely a heart attack that occurred while he was on a Zoom call with women\u2019s advocates in British Columbia.Through studies that began in 1979, Drs. Stark and Flitcraft became experts in intimate partner violence, sounding an alarm that battering \u2014 not car accidents or sexual assault \u2014 was the largest cause of injury that sent women to emergency rooms.But by talking to battered women as well as veterans who had experienced post-traumatic stress disorder from their treatment in the military, Dr. Stark began to understand that coercive control was a strategy that included violence but that also involved threats of beatings, isolating female victims from friends and family and cutting off their access to money, food, communication and transportation.\u201cLike assaults, coercive control undermines a victim\u2019s physical and psychological integrity,\u201d he wrote in \u201cCoercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life\u201d (2007). \u201cBut the main means used to establish control is the micro-regulation of everyday behaviors associated with stereotypic female roles, such as how women dress, cook, clean, socialize, care for their children or perform sexually.\u201dDr. Stark started a forensic social work practice in 1990 \u2014 a year later, he earned a master\u2019s of social work degree from Fordham University \u2014 and began to testify for victims in courts.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4038,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}