Emma Katz
Coercive Control in children’s and mother’s lives (5 October 2022)
Drawing on interviews with children and mothers who have experienced coercive control-based domestic violence, this ground-breaking book sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. Resistance happens in everyday life, not just in response to incidents of violence. Breaking free from coercive control is not a one-off event but a sustained battle for safety and recovery in which child and adult survivors need supports and professional interventions that work.
Domestic Violence, children’s agency and mother-child relationships: towards a more advanced model (11 April 2013)
The author argues that childrens’ agency and the bilateral nature of the parent-child / mother-child relationship needs to be acknowledged, specifically in a domestic violence situation.
Emma Katz in Children & Society, vol 29 (no 1)