Emma Katz

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Year	Body/jurisdiction		Document	Cited contribution(s)
2016		Parliament of Victoria	Royal Commission into Family Violence, Volume II: Report and Recommendations	Katz 2014[3]	Concept of mothers and children as potential "promoters" of each other's recoveries from domestic violence.[4]
		HM Government, Department for Education	Pathways to Harm, Pathways to Protection: A Triennial Analysis of Serious Case Reviews 2011 to 2014	Katz 2016a[5]	Concept of coercive control as ongoing as opposed to incident-based.[6]
2017		Australian Government, Department of Social Services	Fathers Who Use Violence: Options for Safe Practice Where There Is Ongoing Contact With Children		Evidence that men who use "tactics of abuse" against their partners may also use the same tactics against their children.[7]
2019		Welsh Parliament	Briefing submitted by Children in Wales, NSPCC Wales and Welsh Women's Aid to cross-party group[8] on Children and Young People / Violence against Women and Children	Katz 2016b[9]	Definition of the impacts of coercive control on children.[10]
2020		Northern Ireland Assembly	Briefing submitted by NSPCC Northern Ireland in response to call for evidence from Committee for Justice on Domestic Abuse and Family Proceedings Bill[11]	Katz 2019[12]	Examples of children's experiences of domestic abuse and disclosure; evidence that a strong relationship with the parent victim improves children's chances of recovery.[13]
		HM Government, Ministry of Justice	Literature review for Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents in Private Law Children Cases: Final Report[14]	Katz 2016a[5]	General findings – referenced/paraphrased in sections 1.2, 4.4, 5.2, 5.2.1, and 6.3.[15]

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Katz was a member of the expert advisory panel for Research England's Domestic Abuse Policy Guidance for UK Universities 2021.^[16]

• Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives (Oxford University Press, 2022).^[17][18]

She has also written for the academic journal Child Abuse Review.^[19]

In March 2020 Katz's research was cited in a Guardian article by Jess Hill on the murder of Hannah Clarke in Brisbane, Australia.^[25] In the same month Katz featured in an ITV News report on the Coronation Street coercive control storyline involving the characters Yasmeen Nazir and Geoff Metcalfe.^[26]

In November 2022 an article published on the Bristol Cable news website included quotes from Katz criticising the use of parental alienation counter-accusations by parents accused of domestic violence or child abuse in family courts.^[2]