ABSTRACT
The introductory chapter provides an overview of the book as a multi-disciplinary reflection on the interaction between coercion and trust. The first volume in a series of books based on expert academic contributions from Lucy Cavendish College lectures and reading groups at the University of Cambridge, Coercion and Trust provides a unique amalgamation of experts from different disciplines, including criminology, development studies, education, psychology, sociology, humanities, and veterinary medicine. The authors together create the first major multi-disciplinary publication on the relationship between coercion and trust in the social sciences, humanities, and medical research and practice. By uniquely conjoining ‘coercion’ with ‘trust’, the book updates and reflects on these concepts with reference to the extensive body of earlier literature available separately in each field. The volume is an in-depth academic dialogue, exploring the complex connections between coercion and trust in different areas of academic research and their relevance to professional practice and advanced postgraduate study and training in the separate fields of ‘coercion’ and ‘trust’.
