Countering ‘rape as routine’: world expert explains the key to getting coercive control laws right

Sexual assault in relationships requires entirely separate systems of reporting, says professor who coined term coercive control'

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Australia's first laws to make coercive control a crime must be expanded to include rape in relationships as well as stalking and other forms of violence, according to the international expert who coined the term.

Prof Evan Stark and his wife, Anne, began sheltering domestic violence victims in their home in the early 1970s.

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