Despite its great achievements, the domestic violence revolution is stalled, Evan Stark argues in this provocative and persuasive book. Interventions have failed to improve women's long-term safety in relationships or to hold perpetrators accountable, he shows, because the singular focus on physical violence against women masks an even more devastating reality. In millions of abusive relationships, men use a largely unidentified form of subjugation that more closely resembles kidnapping or indentured servitude than assault. He calls this pattern of manipulative behaviors coercive control. Drawing on sources that range from FBI statistics and film to dozens of actual cases from his thirty years as an award-winning researcher, advocate, and forensic expert, Stark documents in terrifying detail how men can use coercive control to subvert women's autonomy, isolate them, and infiltrate the most intimate corners of their lives. Against this backdrop, Stark analyzes three cases of women tried for crimes they committed in the context of abuse, demonstrating that their reactions ate intelligible only when they are reframed as victims of coercive control rather than as battered wives.