COERCION
INCORPORATED
A memoir about coercive control, from the violence inside a marriage to the family court system that gave her abuser new tools to wield. She left the relationship. She didn't leave the abuse. All in. All betrayed.
The Hidden Architecture
of Control
A decade inside coercive control taught Adeline Burnet to calculate survival in real time. Leaving taught her something harder: that the threat does not end when you walk out the door. It changes shape.
Coercion Incorporated is the forensic account of a decade-long coercively controlling relationship and the family court system that became its continuation. It is not the story of abuse most people expect. It is the precise documentation of how one woman's autonomy was systematically dismantled, and how the institution meant to protect her when she fled instead weaponised the law against her and her child.
Through careful detail and refused softness, Adeline Burnet charts the architecture of control as it moved from the bedroom into legal correspondence, from threats into court orders, from a man's behaviour into a system's indifference. She names what happened. She names what the system did. And she names what needs to change.
A love letter to her children. A warning to the system. A manifesto for every woman still in it, and every child whose body keeps score when the courtroom would not listen.
The Author
Adeline Burnet is a professional, a mother, and a woman who spent a decade inside a coercively controlling relationship while building a life the world could see. She documented everything. She kept the receipts. This book is the result.
She wrote it because the system that was supposed to protect her daughter required her silence, and silence was no longer something she was willing to give. She lives in Australia with her children and a dog who has no idea how important he is.