This is a timely book addressing an under-researched area of domestic abuse DL the impact of coercive control on children. Katz begins with a powerful sentence, "if a situation of coercive control was a political system it would be a dictatorship", setting out clearly the entrapment victims experience. It has hitherto been popularly considered that children merely witness abuse and control, but this book graphically documents the experiences of both mothers and children showing that children are victims in their own right. It should be compulsory reading for every child protection professional and every family court judge.
Emma Katz, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Katz's scholarship explores coercive control-based domestic violence and abuse and its impacts on children and young people, including both the harms experienced by children and mothers and their recoveries. Katz is an internationally-acclaimed researcher, winning awards including the Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE)'s Corinna Seith Prize. Her research has been extensively utilised by organisations and practitioners in Europe and globally.