Professor Evan Stark is a forensic social worker and author of several books including Coercive Control. 

A lecturer at Yale and Rutgers University, he has also held appointments at the University of Essex, Bristol University and the University of Edinburgh.

Stark’s award-winning book was the original source of the coercive control model when the United Kingdom’s Home Office widened the definition of domestic violence. Stark played a major role in the consultation that led to the drafting of the new Coercive Control law in the United Kingdom. 

Stark is a world-renowned expert on Coercive Control consulted by state governments, domestic violence organizations and the media on intimate partner abuse and control using psychological manipulation and terror.