She is the co-creator of a video project, Reimagining the Movement to End Gender Violence, consisting of interviews with leading activists and scholars regarding the need to refocus gender violence activism on social inequalities and less on criminal justice intervention. In , she was a co-investigator for a U. The result, Responses from the Field, reports results from more than respondents. She is currently engaged in two empirical studies: a survey of family law attorneys regarding their approach to cases involving domestic violence; a study of domestic violence court misdemeanor outcomes.
Before attending law school, Professor Coker worked as a shelter-based advocate and was the coordinator of a community based domestic violence project. She teaches criminal law, evidence, mass incarceration, domestic violence and social justice. Vermont Law School has resumed on-campus classes for the fall. Since then, she has been co-investigator for a national survey that uncovered significant police bias based on gender, race, class, immigration status, and LGBTQ identity in responding to domestic violence and incidents of sexual assault.
Reflecting on her work, Coker said, "I want to give law students the tools to think differently about these cases while challenging the assumptions and biases that shape our responses to gender violence. Her mother was also an educator, teaching elementary school children and directing the University's curriculum lab.
The national women's movement and the political climate in Arkansas also influences Coker. Her father chaired Bill Clinton's last gubernatorial campaign and served on an educational reform committee led by Hillary Clinton. As an undergraduate at Harding University, Coker worked as an intern—the only full-time staff person—at the state's first domestic violence shelter in Little Rock. She later worked at a telephone crisis center and as a Legal Services paralegal, helping women deal with violent and abusive relationships.
She earned her bachelor's degree in social work in from Harding, followed by a master's degree in social work from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She also married and moved to Hawaii with her husband, Tom Dukowitz, M. While in Hawaii, she was the coordinator of a community-based domestic violence project in Honolulu, overseeing advocacy and support for more than women a year. By then, she and her husband were raising 4- and 6-year-old sons, Zacchary and Jacob—an experience that has made her keenly aware of the challenges and rewards of being a parent-student.
After earning her J. She joined the California Alliance Against Domestic Violence in state lobbying efforts, providing expert testimony, and writing policy papers. Coker says there are many misconceptions about domestic violence, beginning with the idea that merely raising a victim's self-esteem will solve the problem.
A related problematic belief is a presumption that every victim should separate, added Coker, "but not all intimate partner violence experiences are the same. New articles by this author. New citations to this author. New articles related to this author's research. Email address for updates. My profile My library Metrics Alerts. Sign in. Get my own profile Cited by View all All Since Citations h-index 14 12 iindex 16 University of Miami School of Law.
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