This paper reviews how this journal issue on Evan Stark's (2007) book, Coercive Control focuses on what adapting a coercive control model of abuse implies for intervention, and particularly for shelters and the law. The authors have raised issues as to whether coercive control is a distinct behavioral pattern meriting a distinctive response; whether victimization or resistance is overemphasized, the political costs of reframing domestic violence as coercive control; what the analysis implies for shelters; possible unintended consequences for victims of broadening the criminal justice response to include coercive control; the utility of defining partner abuse as a human rights offense; and how to "narrate" coercive control in the most persuasive way. Note and references