This unique volume attests to the coming of age of research on family violence. Leading authorities in this interdisciplinary area offer useful insights into such concerns as wife-battering, child neglect and abuse, and criteria for distinguishing when child abuse or marital violence have actually taken place.
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Richard J. Gelles received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire. He is the Dean of The School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania and holds The Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence in the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of the Center for the Study of Youth Policy and Co-Director of the Center for Children’s Policy, Practice, and Research. His book, The Violent Home was the first systematic empirical investigation of family violence and continues to be highly influential. He is the author or coauthor of 23 books and more than 100 articles and chapters on family violence. His latest books are, The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives (Basic Books, 1996) and Intimate Violence in Families, Third Edition (Sage Publications, 1997).
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This volume is a collection of writing by some of the best-known authorities on family violence and abuse. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wife abuse services, extradomestic violence, serious past injury, ordinary physical punishment, nonsexual battering, wife abuse programs, marital rape victims, nonsexual violence, interest group variables, restraining judgment, new social knowledge, intrafamilial child sexual abuse, ordinary violence, domestic violence legislation, family violence researchers, loving contrition, hitting license, pain cues, discipline index, battered husband syndrome, feminist sentiment, diagnostic behavior, stimulated aggression, abusive discipline, physical child abuse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Free Press, San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Dissertation Abstracts International, John Wiley, Repeater Couple, United States, Garden City, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, National Center, American Humane Association, University of Chicago Press, Englewood Cliffs, Harvard University Press, American Sociological Association, University of Minnesota Press, Academic Press, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Sociological Review, Bureau of the Census, Psychological Bulletin, University of New Hampshire, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Department of Justice New!
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wife abuse services, extradomestic violence, serious past injury, ordinary physical punishment, nonsexual battering, wife abuse programs, marital rape victims, nonsexual violence, interest group variables, restraining judgment, new social knowledge, intrafamilial child sexual abuse, ordinary violence, domestic violence legislation, family violence researchers, loving contrition, hitting license, pain cues, discipline index, battered husband syndrome, feminist sentiment, diagnostic behavior, stimulated aggression, abusive discipline, physical child abuse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Free Press, San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Dissertation Abstracts International, John Wiley, Repeater Couple, United States, Garden City, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, National Center, American Humane Association, University of Chicago Press, Englewood Cliffs, Harvard University Press, American Sociological Association, University of Minnesota Press, Academic Press, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Sociological Review, Bureau of the Census, Psychological Bulletin, University of New Hampshire, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Department of Justice New!
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- Family Violence (SAGE Library of Social Research) by Richard J. (James) Gelles on 10 pages
- Social Psychology by Leonard Berkowitz on 6 pages
- Child Abuse (The Developing Child Series) by C. Henry Kempe on 5 pages
- Child Abuse by Peggy Murray on 4 pages
- Child Abuse: A Community Concern by Kim Oates on page 301, and page 303
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- Intimate Partner Violence : Societal, Medical, Legal, and Individual Responses (Women's Health Issues) by Sana Loue on 5 pages
- "Not to People Like Us": Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriages by Susan Weitzman on 5 pages
- Family Violence: Research and Public Policy Issues (AEI Studies) by Douglas J. Besharov on 4 pages
- Family Empowerment As an Intervention Strategy in Juvenile Delinquency by Letitia C Pallone on page 56, and page 106
- Working with Men: Feminism and Social Work (State of Welfare) by Kate Cavanagh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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