Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT 05068, USA.
Violence Against Women. 2009 Dec;15(12):1458-76. doi: 10.1177/1077801209347091. Epub 2009 Oct 9.
This article examines Evan Stark's model of coercive control and what this paradigm shift might mean for the law. Coercive control can help redefine both criminal offenses involving domestic violence and defenses available to women who kill their abusers. This redefinition would shift the law away from incident-based violence and toward a more comprehensive and accurate paradigm that accounts for the deprivation of a woman's autonomy within the context of an abusive relationship. Such a change would likely provide more effective state intervention into what were once considered private relationships. Yet, this approach may also have some unintended consequences, including refocusing the law on a victim's mental state and complicity in her own abuse rather than on the harm caused by abusive men. Thus, although the law should more fully account for coercive control, lawyers must be cautiously optimistic in implementing Stark's proposed reforms.
本文探讨了埃文·斯塔克（Evan Stark）的强制性控制模式，以及这种范式转变对法律可能意味着什么。强制性控制可以帮助重新定义既涉及家庭暴力的刑事犯罪，也可以重新定义女性在杀害施虐者时可用的辩护理由。这种重新定义将使法律从基于事件的暴力转向更全面和准确的范式，该范式考虑到了在虐待关系中剥夺女性自主权的情况。这种变化可能会使国家更有效地干预曾经被视为私人关系的问题。然而，这种方法也可能产生一些意外的后果，包括将法律的重点重新放在受害者的精神状态和她对自己虐待的共谋上，而不是放在施虐者造成的伤害上。因此，尽管法律应该更充分地考虑强制性控制，但律师在实施斯塔克提出的改革时必须持谨慎乐观的态度。
