What Does the "Coercive Cycle" Refer To

What does the "coercive cycle" refer to?

A) parents learning abusive parenting techniques from their parents, then carrying them out with their own children
B) the revolving door of our punitive criminal justice system that perpetuates violent crime
C) the sexual exploitation of children
D) foster children being moved from one abusive family to the next that often leads them to become abusers themselves