Publications - Courtney Cross

Monographs

Parental Kidnapping Statutes and the Narrowing of Battered Parents’ Options (work in progress, available upon request)

Know Your Rights: A Guide to Legal Remedies for Domestic Violence in the District of Columbia (Georgetown Domestic Violence Clinic, 6th ed. 2015) (editor).

Victimized Again: How the Reentry Process Perpetuates Violence against Survivors of Domestic Violence (National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women 2013).

Articles

Parenting Under Siege: Reckoning with Coercive Control, Connecticut Law Review. 632 (2025).

Coercive Control and the Limits of Criminal Law, 56 UC Davis L. Rev. 195 (2022).

Sex, Crime, and Serostatus, 78 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 71 (2021).

The Dangers of Disclosure: How HIV Laws Harm Domestic Violence Survivors, 95 Wash. L. Rev. 83 (2020).

Criminalizing Battered Mothers, 2018 Utah L. Rev. 259 (2018).

Reentering Survivors: Invisible at the Intersection of the Criminal Legal System and the Domestic Violence Movement, 31 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 60 (2016).

Civil Protection Orders: Increased Access and Narrowed Enforcement, 18 U. D.C. L. Rev. 191 (2015).

Parenting Under Siege: Reckoning with Coercive Control, 57 Conn. L. Rev. (2025) (with Gillian Chadwick).