Evan Stark is a sociologist, forensic social worker, a widely published author and an award-winning researcher with an international reputation for his innovative work on the legal, policy and health dimensions of interpersonal violence, including its effects on children.
Dr. Stark’s book, Coercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life (Oxford, 2007) was named the outstanding book in the social sciences for 2007 by the American Publishers’ Association and recipient of the “Choice” Award. American Library Association for “outstanding academic book reviewed in 2008.” Coercive control became available as an audiobook in 2018. Evan’s work on coercive control has helped shape policies on gender violence throughout in several U.S. States, in Taiwan, Turkey and other countries where he has worked, and laid the conceptual groundwork for new offenses involving of ‘coercive and controlling behavior’ in England/Wales (2016) as well as in Scotland (2017).