"Oregon prosecutors said she didn’t protect her baby. She says she was surviving abuse.”
Investigate West quoted Joan Meier on "failure to protect” charges, which are criminal prosecutions in which a parent is accused of enabling a partner or co-parent to abuse.
"Can family abuse be halted by psychological intimidation laws? These states are trying”
USA Today quoted Joan Meier on coercive control.
Professor Meier appears in "Allen v. Farrow," a new four-part HBO series documenting the accusation of sexual abuse against actor Woody Allen and the aftermath that followed. In episodes 3 and 4, Professor Meier sheds light on the strategies used by abusers, the "alienation" label often used to deny women's and children's abuse claims, and what is going on in family courts today. Her research, based at GW's National Family Violence Law Center, also provides much of the background for the film.
