Richard J Gelles
Biographic Data
| ID | 87431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Gelles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelles |
| SIGNATURE | GELLES R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 669 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Harnessing big data for social justice: An exploration of violence against women‐related conversations on Twitter
Physical assault perpetration and victimisation among Chinese university students
This study applies the ecological conceptual model in examining the rates and risk factors of both severe and minor physical assault perpetration and victimisation among university students
Police Response to Violence and Conflict between Parents and their Minor Children
Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family
The marriage license as a hitting license, child abuse, sibling war is the powerful message of "Behind Closed Doors". The book is grounded in the unprecedented national survey of the extent, patterns, and causes of violence in the American family. Based on a seven-year study of over 2,000 families, the authors provide landmark insights into this phenomenon of violence and what causes Americans to inflict it on their family members. The authors ex…
Behavioralism in Political Science
Women’s Perceptions of Safety and Risk Following Police Intervention for Intimate Partner Violence
Police intervention is a primary response to intimate partner violence (IPV) but does not guarantee a victim's future safety. This study sought to identify factors associated with IPV survivors' perceptions of safety and risk of revictimization following police intervention. One hundred sixty-four women completed a questionnaire, and 11 of those women also took part in qualitative interviews. The findings revealed that feeling unsafe and perceivi…
The Dialectical Psychoeducational Workshop (DPEW): The Conceptual Framework and Curriculum for a Preventative Intervention for Males at Risk for IPV
Current programs aimed at reducing intimate partner violence (IPV) have demonstrated little effect on at-risk males, who may potentially engage in acts of IPV. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) provides the conceptual and empirical foundation for the dialectical psychoeducational workshop (DPEW). The DPEW offers a targeted preventative intervention for individuals potentially at risk for IPV. This article offers the rationale and theoretical bas…
Perceived Mattering to the Family and Physical Violence Within the Family by Adolescents
Mattering is the extent to which people believe they make a difference in the world around them. This study hypothesizes that adolescents who believe they matter less to their families will more likely threaten or engage in intrafamily physical violence. The data come from a national sample of 2,004 adolescents. Controlling for respondents' age, gender, race, religiosity, and family socioeconomic status, structure, and size, logistic regression r…
Admitting convicted felons to social work programs: Conceptual dilemmas and practices
In this article, we review the ethical and legal dilemmas regarding the admission of convicted felons and study the practices used by American schools of social work. An important finding is that schools that are proactively engaged in asking for and processing felony conviction information are also more ethically engaged
Multiple child maltreatment recurrence relative to single recurrence and no recurrence
Adolescent risk behaviors and religion: Findings from a national study
Too few studies have assessed the relationship between youth risk behaviors and religiosity using measures which captured the varied extent to which youth are engaged in religion. This study applied three measures of religiosity and risk behaviors. In addition, this study ascertained information about youths’ participation in religious activities from a parent or caretaker. Based on a national random sample of 2004 teens (ages 11–18), this study …
Abuse type and substantiation status varying by recurrence
Child maltreatment and foster care
Current controversies on family violence
The study of family violence is surrounded by multiple controversies. Experts in this field do not agree about what should be studied and condemned (Is spanking violence? Is women's violence toward men a major social problem? If it is, how should it be measured? What, specifically, should be condemned as date rape?) Experts also disagree about the causes of violence (Individual pathology? The structure of gender or families?), as well as about wh…
Family Violence among Adults with Severe Mental Illness: A Neglected Area of Research
Violence against family caregivers by their adult relatives with severe mental illness is a taboo area of public discourse and scientific research because of fears of further stigmatizing this population. Yet, these families experience violence at a rate estimated to be between 10% and 40%, which is considerably higher than the general population. This article reviews the limited research on violence of adults with severe mental illness against t…
Mattering and Suicide Ideation: Establishing and Elaborating a Relationship
Mattering is the belief that one makes a difference in the lives of others. We explore the effect of mattering on adolescent suicide ideation. The data source is the 2000 Youth At Risk Survey, composed of interviews with 2,004 youths, age 11–18 and screening interviews with their parents. Our analysis reveals that those who matter more are significantly less likely to consider suicide. In addition, we elaborate the relationship between mattering …
Youth and Religion: The Gameboy Generation Goes to 'Church
Estimating the Incidence and Prevalence of Violence Against Women: National Data Systems and Sources
This article examines the national data systems and sources used to assess the extent and seriousness of violence against women. The major existing data sources consist of the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supplementary Homicide Reports, which provide data on intimate partner homicides, the Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey, three national self-report surveys, and various data from hospitals an…
Estimating the Incidence and Prevalence of Violence Against Women: National Data Systems and Sources
Shackled in the Land of Liberty: No Rights for Children
This article addresses the rights of children in areas of juvenile justice, child welfare, and mental health. Although a large proportion of the juvenile court's business includes child welfare and mental health cases, these important areas are rarely considered by authors concerned with the future of the juvenile court. In mental health, children have few, if any, rights. Yet, they are often subjected to abuse and constraints that would constitu…
Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies
The Book of David: How Preserving Families can Cost Children's Lives
A dangerous world sentinels - monitoring child safety investigation and risk management unreasonable efforts the failure of family preservation children first
The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives
The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives. Richard Gelles. New York: Basic Books. 1996. 200 pp. Hardcover ISBN 0-465-05395-5. $23.00. In this moving, compelling, and provocative book, Richard Gelles, a sociologist who has devoted much of his career to elucidating the prevalence and incidence of family violence, turns his attention to child protection. In a strikingly effective effort to illustrate the manner in which so…
Reason to Hope: A Psychosocial Perspective On Violence and Youth, edited by Leonard D. Eron, Jacqueline H. Gentry, and Peggy Schlegel. Washington DC, American Psychological Association
Reason to Hope: A Psychosocial Perspective On Violence and Youth, edited by Leonard D. Eron, Jacqueline H. Gentry, and Peggy Schlegel. Washington DC, American Psychological Association
Societal Change and Change in Family Violence from 1975 to 1985 as Revealed by Two National Surveys
Comparisons between two national surveys conducted in 1975 and 1985 on the rates of physical violence against children and spouses are presented in this article. The sample consisted of 2143 families in 1975 and 3520 families in 1985. Findings showed that 1) physical child abuse decreased by 47% from 1975 to 1985; 2) wife beating decreased by 27% while severe assaults declined by 4.3%; and 3) despite these reductions the rates of child abuse and …
Abused Wives: Why Do They Stay
Family Violence
This chapter reviews research on family violence. Once viewed as rare and confined to a few mentally ill offenders, family violence has rapidly captured public and social scientific attention. The review examines the 'discovery' of family violence as a social and sociological problem. Among the major problems that confront students of family violence are defining, both nominally and operationally, child abuse, wife abuse, and violence. Access to …
Physical violence in American families: Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8,145 Families
Poverty and Violence Toward Children
Mattering and Suicide Ideation: Establishing and Elaborating a Relationship
Mattering is the belief that one makes a difference in the lives of others. We explore the effect of mattering on adolescent suicide ideation. The data source is the 2000 Youth At Risk Survey, composed of interviews with 2,004 youths, age 11–18 and screening interviews with their parents. Our analysis reveals that those who matter more are significantly less likely to consider suicide. In addition, we elaborate the relationship between mattering …
Violence in the American Family
The paper reviews current knowledge on violence between family members in the United States, including how and why family violence became a topic of interest after years of being masked by a public and professional perceptual blackout. It presents data from a nationally representative sample of 2,143 American families that measured the extent of child abuse, wife abuse, husband abuse, and violence between siblings. The paper then reports differen…
Is Violence in Black Families Increasing? A Comparison of 1975 and 1985 National Survey Rates
Robert L. Hampton, Richard J. Gelles, John W. Harrop, Is Violence in Black Families Increasing? A Comparison of 1975 and 1985 National Survey Rates, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Nov., 1989), pp. 969-980
Women’s Perceptions of Safety and Risk Following Police Intervention for Intimate Partner Violence
Police intervention is a primary response to intimate partner violence (IPV) but does not guarantee a victim's future safety. This study sought to identify factors associated with IPV survivors' perceptions of safety and risk of revictimization following police intervention. One hundred sixty-four women completed a questionnaire, and 11 of those women also took part in qualitative interviews. The findings revealed that feeling unsafe and perceivi…
Multiple child maltreatment recurrence relative to single recurrence and no recurrence
Violence and Pregnancy: Are Pregnant Women at Greater Risk of Abuse
This paper examines whether pregnant women are at special risk of being victimized by their husbands and partners according to the data of the Second National Family Violence Survey. Telephone interviews were conducted with individuals in 6002 nationally representative households. Violence and abuse were measured using the Conflict Tactics Scale. Results showed that the rates of minor severe and overall violence were higher in the households wher…
Perceived Mattering to the Family and Physical Violence Within the Family by Adolescents
Mattering is the extent to which people believe they make a difference in the world around them. This study hypothesizes that adolescents who believe they matter less to their families will more likely threaten or engage in intrafamily physical violence. The data come from a national sample of 2,004 adolescents. Controlling for respondents' age, gender, race, religiosity, and family socioeconomic status, structure, and size, logistic regression r…
Youth and Religion: The Gameboy Generation Goes to 'Church
Violence Toward Black Women in a Nationally Representative Sample of Black Families
This paper examines the incidence of violence toward women and risk factors for violence toward women in black families. Data from the Second National Family Violence Survey are analyzed. The Second National Family Violence Survey interviewed a nationally representative sample of 6,002 families in 1986, of which 580 respondents were black. Black women were 1.23 times more likely to experience minor violence and were more than twice as likely to e…
Power, Sex, and Violence: The Case of Marital Rape
The available evidence on marital violence indicates that a number of women are forced into having sexual relations with their husbands through intimidation or physical force. Faulk's research (1977) identified cases where sexual intercourse was forced on a wife after her husband beat her. Other data point to the fact that, although marital rape is not possible in a strict legal sense, some women are talking about and reporting incidents of marit…
Abuse type and substantiation status varying by recurrence
Estimating the Incidence and Prevalence of Violence Against Women: National Data Systems and Sources
Admitting convicted felons to social work programs: Conceptual dilemmas and practices
In this article, we review the ethical and legal dilemmas regarding the admission of convicted felons and study the practices used by American schools of social work. An important finding is that schools that are proactively engaged in asking for and processing felony conviction information are also more ethically engaged
Aggression: Its Causes, Consequences, and Control
Constraints Against Family Violence: How Well Do They Work
Physical violence, child abuse, and child homicide: A continuum of violence, or distinct behaviors
"Teaching Sociology" on Teaching Sociology
categories: (1) presentations of innovative strategies and of the effectiveness of the innovations, and (2)presentations ofspecific techniques to teach ideas or concepts. Second, methods of conducting research on are discussed by considering constraints on research on and the dependent variables used in research on sociology. While considerable work has been done to improve sociology, most endeavors still fail to apply sociological theory to the …
Violence and Pregnancy: A Note on the Extent of the Problem and Needed Services
Estimating the Incidence and Prevalence of Violence Against Women: National Data Systems and Sources
This article examines the national data systems and sources used to assess the extent and seriousness of violence against women. The major existing data sources consist of the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supplementary Homicide Reports, which provide data on intimate partner homicides, the Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey, three national self-report surveys, and various data from hospitals an…
Demythologizing Child Abuse
The idea of a dramatic rise in child abuse is one of the main which clouds the clear perception and understanding of the problem of child abuse and neglect in America. Inaccuracies concern facets of the problem such as what is child abuse, how much abuse is there, what is the cause of abuse, and what is the impact of prevention and treatment programs which are being instituted? This paper will address these myths in order to demythologize the iss…
Child abuse as psychopathology: A sociological critique and reformulation
Book reviewed in this article: Much of the current research on child abuse employs a psychopathological model, which explains child abuse as a function of a psychological pathology, or a “sickness.” This paper asserts that major deficiencies of this model are its inconsistency and narrowness. It is suggested that a more dimensional approach to child abuse is possible by focusing on the sociological and contextual variables associated with abuse
The violent home: A Study of Physical Aggression Between Husbands and Wives
The Social Psychological Implications of Form of Address
Violence and Pregnancy: A Note on the Extent of the Problem and Needed Services
Family experience and public support of the death penalty
Integration of data on the characteristics of death penalty supporters with data on violence within the family suggests that experience with violence in the family, and the meaning and moral evaluation of punishment and violence learned thereby, lead to support for the death penalty. This paper concludes that the high level of public support for the death penalty may be accounted for in part by the high level of violence within the family and by …
The social construction of child abuse
Research on child abuse has traditionally focused on incidence, causes, and prevention and treatment. One facet overlooked is that abuse is social deviance, and is the product of social labeling. Employing the perspective of labeling theory, this paper proposes that causes of abuse are products of social definitions applied by gatekeepers charged with identifying children injured by their caretakers. Gaps in our knowledge of child abuse are point…
Demythologizing Child Abuse
The idea of a dramatic rise in child abuse is one of the main which clouds the clear perception and understanding of the problem of child abuse and neglect in America. Inaccuracies concern facets of the problem such as what is child abuse, how much abuse is there, what is the cause of abuse, and what is the impact of prevention and treatment programs which are being instituted? This paper will address these myths in order to demythologize the iss…
The Little Darlings: A History of Child Rearing in America
Abused Wives: Why Do They Stay
The Family, Marriage, and Social Change
Power, Sex, and Violence: The Case of Marital Rape
The available evidence on marital violence indicates that a number of women are forced into having sexual relations with their husbands through intimidation or physical force. Faulk's research (1977) identified cases where sexual intercourse was forced on a wife after her husband beat her. Other data point to the fact that, although marital rape is not possible in a strict legal sense, some women are talking about and reporting incidents of marit…
Methods for studying sensitive family topics
Researchers on sensitive topics in family relations face a number of obstacles, due to the private nature of the family and to ethical constraints on the study of humans. Difficulties in locating subjects, engaging their cooperation, and obtaining valid and reliable data are discussed, and methods are proposed for pursuing research on these important but frequently taboo topics
Violence toward children in the United States
This paper reports results of a survey of a representative sample of 2143 American families, designed to examine the incidence, modes, and patterns of parent-to-child violence. Findings suggest that violence, well beyond ordinary physical punishment, is an extensive and patterned phenomenon in parent-child relations. Implications are discussed, and directions for further research are indicated
Time and Television News Work
Combining theoretical and ethnographic material, this paper outlines why time is an important vehicle for analyzing the social organization of television news work and the social construction of television news. The paper investigates major events with problematic features—unscheduled “hard news”—as a means of understanding basic beliefs and organizational practices of news assemblers in a local television news station. Based on participant obser…
Violence in the American Family
The paper reviews current knowledge on violence between family members in the United States, including how and why family violence became a topic of interest after years of being masked by a public and professional perceptual blackout. It presents data from a nationally representative sample of 2,143 American families that measured the extent of child abuse, wife abuse, husband abuse, and violence between siblings. The paper then reports differen…
Interpreting family violence data: Reply
Violence in the Family: A Review of Research in the Seventies
This paper reviews research on family violence in the seventies. The issue of family violence became increasingly visible as a social and family issue in the decade of the seventies. Whereas research in the sixties tended to view domestic violence as rare and confined to mentally disturbed and/or poor people, research in the seventies revealed family violence as an extensive phenomenon which could not be explained solely as a consequence of psych…
Books in review
"Teaching Sociology" on Teaching Sociology
categories: (1) presentations of innovative strategies and of the effectiveness of the innovations, and (2)presentations ofspecific techniques to teach ideas or concepts. Second, methods of conducting research on are discussed by considering constraints on research on and the dependent variables used in research on sociology. While considerable work has been done to improve sociology, most endeavors still fail to apply sociological theory to the …
Ethical Dilemmas in Qualitative Family Research
Family Violence
Family Violence
Maternal Employment and Violence toward Children
Traumatic Abuse and Neglect of Children at Home
Once a subject little noticed, and when noticed, left unspoken, child abuse has recently gained much public attention. In the thirty-seven chapters, this volume provides a comprehensive investigation of the many facets of parental abuse and neglect of children. Among the topics considered are historical perspectives on child abuse, social sanctions against it, and the characteristics both of abusive parents and of the children they victimize. Als…
Applying Research on Family Violence to Clinical Practice
family violence, can be applied to clinical practice. The analysis is based on ten years of research on family violence and a one-year clinical position in a teaching hospital which included diagnostic and therapeutic work in the Department of Psychiatry and an interdisciplinary outpatient clinic. Limitations of the knowledge base constrain the application of research on family violence to clinical work. Moreover, certain aspects of the research …
Psychology (58 works) · Medicine (38 works) · Poison control (35 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (32 works) · Sociology (30 works) · Criminology (29 works) · Medical emergency (29 works) · Suicide prevention (26 works) · Political science (25 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (20 works)