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This book provides a concise-yet-comprehensive overview and critique of leading theories of family violence. It addresses various forms of violence, including elder abuse, sibling abuse, child abuse, and intimate partner violence. The book provides several frameworks to examine the prevalence of family violence and offers prevention and intervention strategies. Key areas of coverage include: Macro-level theories, such family violence theory, feminist theory, psychological theories, public health approaches, and criminological theories. Specialized approaches that include black feminist criminology and behavior analytic theories. Situational analysis that includes special focus on special populations, including children and the elderly. Concrete applications of and policy recommendations for each approach. Theories of Family Violence is a must-have resource for is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in forensic psychology, public health, criminology/criminal justice, developmental psychology, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, educational policy and politics, health psychology, nursing, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, and all related disciplines.

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Angela Hattery, Ph.D., is Professor of the Department of Women & Gender Studies and co-Director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence at the University of Delaware. She received her BA in sociology and anthropology from Carleton College and her master’s and doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of more than a dozen books, including Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement explores the ways in which racial antagonisms are exacerbated by the particular structures of solitary confinement, Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (2022) and Gender, Power and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today. She has authored more than 60 book chapters and peer reviewed journal articles. She has won numerous awards, including Sociologists for Women in Society 2019 Feminist Lecturer Award. Earl Smith, Ph.D., is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Sociology at Wake Forest University. He is currently Professor of Women & Gender Studies at the University of Delaware and Senior Research Scientist at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence also at the University of Delaware. He is the author of 12 books, including his most recent books, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (2023), Gender, Power and Violence (2019), and Policing Black Bodies (2021). In addition, he has published more than 60 book chapters and peer reviewed articles. He is the former president of the North American Society for the Study of Sport Sociology (NASSS) and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards.

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