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Since its publication in 1979, Family Violence has proved to be one of the most popular volumes for professional and text use in its area. The second edition reflects new concerns of family violence studies and advances in Gelles' own work. It includes topics that have emerged since the first edition - such as elder abuse and adolescent-to-parent violence - as well as the discovery by Gelles and his colleagues of a drastic drop in the incidence of family violence over the last decade. Gelles presents summaries of the existing literature, reports current research on the cutting edge of family violence, reflects on older work in the field and makes suggestions for clinical and social service practice.

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• Introduction to the Second Edition
• Part 1 An Overview of Family Violence Research
• Violence in the Family
• A Review of Research
• Part 2 Violence Toward Children
• Child Abuse as Psychopathology
• A Sociological Critique and Reformulation
• Community Agencies and Child Abuse
• Labeling and Gatekeeping
• Is Violence Toward Children in the United States Increasing? A Comparison of 1975 and 1985 National Survey Rates
• Maternal Employment and Violence Toward Children
• Part 3 Marital Violence
• Abused Wives
• Why Do They Stay?
• Violence and Pregnancy
• A Note on the Extent of the Problem and Needed Services
• Power, Sex and Violence
• The Case of Marital Rape
• Part 4 Violence in Other Family Relationships
• Adolescent-to-Parent Violence
• Elder Abuse
• The Status of Current Knowledge
• Part 5 Studying Family Violence
• Methods for Studying Sensitive Family Topics
• Etiology of Violence
• Overcoming Fallacious Reasoning in Understanding Family Violence and Child Abuse
• Part 6 Applying Research to Practice
• Applying Research on Family Violence to Clinical Practice

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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).