1. Setting the Stage
2. Historical Perspectives on Family Violence
3. Theories for Studying Family Violence
4. Methods for Studying Family Violence
5. Abuse across the Life Course: Elder Abuse
6. Abuse across the Life Course: Child Abuse
7. Sibling Abuse, by Veronica Tichenor
8. Outcomes of Child Abuse: Increased Risk for Experiencing Violence in Adulthood
Adrienne’s Story
9. The Economy and Intimate Partner Violence
10. Cultural Factors and Intimate Partner Violence
11. A Public Health Approach to Gender-based Violence
Lauren Camphausen and Jennifer Horney
12. Religion and Family Violence
13. Institutionalized Violence
14. Violence in LGBTQ+ Families
15. Prevention and Avoidance: The Early Warning Signs
16.The Response to Family Violence: The Criminal Legal System and the Social Welfare System
17. Where Do We Go from Here?
Biography
Angela J. Hattery is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware and Co-Director of its Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence. Her research focuses on social stratification, gender, family, and race, and her writing on these topics and more have appeared in numerous articles, book chapters, and twelve books, including her latest co-authored book, with Earl Smith, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (2023).
Earl Smith is Professor of Women & Gender Studies at the University of Delaware and Affiliate at its Center for the Study & Prevention of Gender-Based Violence. He also holds the position of Emeritus Professor of Sociology and the Rubin Distinguished Professor of American Ethnic Studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of numerous distinguished works and books, including his latest, with Angela J. Hattery, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (2023).
