Richard Gelles

Richard James Gelles is an American writer and sociologist. He is a former dean at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Rhode Island and holds the Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence in the School of Social Policy & Practice.[1] He is the director for the Center for Research on Youth & Social Policy and co-director of the Field Center for Children's Policy Practice & Research.

Gelles is an internationally acclaimed expert in domestic violence and child welfare. He was influential in the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.

He is also on the board of directors for the nonprofit organization Pitch in for Baseball.[2]

Education

Gelles received a B.A. from Bates College in Maine in 1968. In 1970 he graduated with a M.A. in sociology in 1970 from the University of Rochester, and Gelles received a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1973.

Publications

Gelles is the author of the book, The Violent Home, which was the first systematic investigation to provide empirical data on domestic violence. His more recent books, The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives and Intimate Violence in Families, Third Edition, have also made a significant impact in the study of child welfare and family violence. He is the author of 24 books and more than 100 articles, chapters and papers.

Gelles also co-wrote Current Controversies on Family Violence (2005) with M. Cavanaugh and D. Loseke. He is co-writing another text, Intimate Violence and Abuse in Families.[3]

Gelles and his colleague, Murray A Straus, struggled throughout much of their academic careers to prevent the public from purposefully distorting their research findings. In response to father's rights groups, Gelles published "Domestic Violence: Not An Even Playing Field"[4] to rectify what he calls a "significant distortion of well-grounded research data."[4]

Gelles reported personal attacks related to the initial publishing of findings that the rate of physical assault by women on male partners is similar to the rate by men on female partners.[5] Gelles' most recent public statement on the state of domestic violence research and policy reiterates his research findings.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Rethinking Orphanages p.304". Retrieved 25 Nov 2017.
  2. ↑ http://www.pitchinforbaseball.org/html/frontoffice.html%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  3. ↑ A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at PennBy Ram A. Cnaan, Melissa E. Dichter, Jeffrey Draine Edition: illustrated Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 ISBN 0-8122-4103-7, ISBN 978-0-8122-4103-7
  4. 1 2 "Richard Gelles: oh so magnanimous, and dead wrong". fathersmanifesto.net. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
  5. ↑ Gelles, R.J., "The Missing Persons of Domestic Violence: Battered Men"
  6. ↑ "Richard Gelles". Power And Control. Retrieved 2017-08-26.


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