Books by Richard J. Gelles and Complete Book Reviews

Richard J. Gelles, Author Basic Books $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-465-05395-7
The tragedy of abused children who have been failed by child welfare agencies is made palpable in the case presented here, followed by a specialist in family violence. Gelles, director of the Family Violence Research Program at the University of...
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Richard J. Gelles, Author, Murray Arnold Straus, With Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-61752-3
Conventional wisdom holds that the typical child abuser or wife beater is mentally disturbed. Not so, claim Gelles and Straus, sociology professors at the Universities of Rhode Island and New Hampshire, respectively. They seek the roots of domestic...
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