Intimate Partner Violence Foundations: Capturing Coercive Control

This webinar is part of a 10-episode podcast-style series focused on the foundational elements of prosecuting intimate partner violence cases (IPV).  In each episode, AEquitas Attorney Advisor Jane Anderson engages in conversations with other AEquitas staff, former prosecutors with years of experience prosecuting IPV.

In this episode, Jane and Attorney Advisor Jon Kurland discuss how offenders assert coercive control in abusive relationships, strategies for admitting evidence of coercive control to provide context to the violence, and when to charge co-occurring crimes. They explore how an offender's coercive control tactics can be identified through interviews, investigation, and collaboration; how these tactics can be introduced as evidence in trial through 404(b) motions; and how coercive control may provide evidence to support additional charges, such as stalking.

At the conclusion of this presentation, viewers will be better able to:

• Identify offenders’ tactics of coercive control tactics;
• Litigate the admission of other crimes, wrongs, and acts; and
• Analyze coercive control in relation to stalking.

Additional resources related to this episode:

• Prosecuting Image Exploitation by Jane Anderson, AEquitas Attorney Advisor, and Supriya Prasad
• The Internet & Intimate Partner Violence: Technology Changes, Abuse Doesn’t by Jane Anderson, AEquitas Attorney Advisor, and Kaofeng Lee
• Evidence of Other “Bad Acts” in Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Human Trafficking Prosecutions by AEquitas