Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective

Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Ed.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Boston University. She has conducted considerable research on family violence since 1980 when she was a postdoctoral fellow on the family violence team at Children's Hospital in Boston. She regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on family violence. She is the lead author Treating Child Abuse: Family Violence in Hospitals, along with Eli Newberger, Richard Bourne, and Jane Snyder. She has also co-authored Studying Families (SAGE, 1991) with with Anne Copeland, and Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective (SAGE, 2004), with Denise Hines. Her current focus is primarily on cross-cultural and international perspectives on family violence and abuse as well as on war and peace. Denise A. Hines, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Clark University, where she is also the Director of the Family Impact Seminar Series and the Co-Director of the Clark Anti-Violence Education Program. She completed her doctoral degree in Psychology at Boston University, and then spent two years as an NIMH postdoctoral research fellow at the University of New Hampshire's Family Research Laboratory with Drs. Murray Straus and David Finkelhor. She is the author or co-author of over 30 articles or book chapters, and two books on issues of family violence, both published by Sage. She has also been the principal investigator on five major grants, focusing on issues of the etiology of partner violence; prevention of dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on college campuses; and the mental and physical health of male victims of partner violence and their children.

PART I. FAMILY VIOLENCE IN CULTURAL CONTEXT: BACKGROUND ISSUES 1. Issues and Definitions 2. Theories and Methods 3. Types and Extent of Maltreatment in the United States PART II. NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURES 4. Native American Cultural Contexts 5. Native American Family Violence PART III. AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURES 6. African American Cultural Contexts 7. African American Child Maltreatment 8. African American Adult Maltreatment PART IV. HISPANIC/LATINO CULTURES 9. Hispanic/Latino Cultural Contexts 10. Hispanic/Latino Child Maltreatment 11. Hispanic/Latino Adult Maltreatment PART V. ASIAN AMERICAN CULTURES 12. Asian American Cultural Contexts 13. Asian American Family Violence PART VI. CONCLUSION: PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION 14. Prevention and Intervention in Child Maltreatment 15. Prevention and Intervention in Adult Maltreatment

"The writing style is engaging and the stories are compelling. Rather than presenting facts and statistics, the authors invite the reader to actively participate in current debates in the family violence research. . . . Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective provides a new, interesting approach." -- Carolyn M. West "A major achievement in compilation and review, beautifully written. . . .This book accomplishes a necessary and admirable goal of bringing a widely dispersed body of knowledge together." -- Jean Giles-Sims