Current Controversies on Family Violence
Donileen R. Losekereceived her bachelor’s in psychology and master’s in behavioral science from California State University Dominguez Hills, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently is a professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. Her books includeThe Battered Woman and Shelters(1992, New York Press), which won the 1994Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, andThinking About Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives, 2e(2003, Aldine deGruyter), andCurrent Controversies on Family Violence, 2nd edition, edited with Richard Gelles and Mary Cavanaugh (2005, SAGE). Numerous journal articles and book chapters report the findings of her empirical research projects that have been on a variety of topics (including evaluation research, social problems, criminal justice, social service provision, occupations, emotion, identity, and narrative), and have used a variety of data collection techniques (including field experiment, written survey, in-depth interview, ethnography, and document analysis). She has been the editor of theJournal of Contemporary Ethnographyand an Advisory Editor forSocial Problems. Currently she is an editorial board member ofSocial Psychology Quarterly, an Advisory Editor forThe Sociological Quarterly, and an Associate Editor ofSymbolic InteractionandJournal of Contemporary Ethnography.Richard J. Gellesreceived his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Hampshire. Heis 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 Homewas 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) andIntimate Violence in Families, Third Edition(Sage Publications, 1997).Mary M. Cavanaugh,MFT, M.S. is currently a doctoral candidate in both Social Welfare and Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been involved with numerous research projects on intimate violence that have been submitted to the National Institute of Justice and the National Institute of Mental Health. She is a practitioner in the field of domestic violence facilitating batterer intervention service programs in cooperation with adult probation and parole departments and victim service agencies. She has served as a consultant and trainer on offender risk assessment and treatment services to state and local victim service agencies and youth and family service departments. Ms. Cavanaugh has recently completed a project for the U.S. Army on "The Evaluation of Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Strategies". She also serves as a consultant to the Violence Against Women and Family Violence Research and Evaluation Program for the National Institute of Justice.