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The Social Dynamics of Family Violence explores family violence through the life course, from child abuse and neglect to intimate partner violence and elder abuse.

Paying close and special attention to the social nature and institutional causes of family violence, authors Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith draw readers'' attention to the ways that social inequality, especially gender inequality, contribute to tensions and explosive tendencies in family settings. As awareness, perspectives, and issues around gender-based and family violence evolve, so does the field, and the revised fourth edition of this textbook exposes faculty, students, and future practitioners and researchers to cutting-edge debates and new approaches to addressing violence within the family. Students learn about individual preventative measures while also being invited to question the systems and structures that create the conditions under which family violence continues to remain highly prevalent. A new chapter in this edition focuses closely on the public health dimensions of family violence and discusses the different theoretical frames and prevention and intervention approaches emanating from this perspective. The authors discuss other new developments and areas of focus, including brain injury and sexual and domestic violence, as well as abolitionist discourses and approaches to thinking about, and responding to, family violence.

With these newer discussions complementing the text’s foundation in theory and methods and its notable coverage of violence within different families and intimate relationships, the fourth edition of The Social Dynamics of Family Violence is an essential reference for any course examining the sociology of family violence.

The Social Dynamics of Family Violence explores family violence through the life course, from child abuse and neglect to intimate partner violence and elder abuse.

Paying close and special attention to the social nature and institutional causes of family violence, authors Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith draw readers'' attention to the ways that social inequality, especially gender inequality, contribute to tensions and explosive tendencies in family settings. As awareness, perspectives, and issues around gender-based and family violence evolve, so does the field, and the revised fourth edition of this textbook exposes faculty, students, and future practitioners and researchers to cutting-edge debates and new approaches to addressing violence within the family. Students learn about individual preventative measures while also being invited to question the systems and structures that create the conditions under which family violence continues to remain highly prevalent. A new chapter in this edition focuses closely on the public health dimensions of family violence and discusses the different theoretical frames and prevention and intervention approaches emanating from this perspective. The authors discuss other new developments and areas of focus, including brain injury and sexual and domestic violence, as well as abolitionist discourses and approaches to thinking about, and responding to, family violence.

With these newer discussions complementing the text’s foundation in theory and methods and its notable coverage of violence within different families and intimate relationships, the fourth edition of The Social Dynamics of Family Violence is an essential reference for any course examining the sociology of family violence.

"Bravo to the authors! They have done an excellent job addressing the issues that are critical to community members, policy makers and interventionists concerned with Black families in the context of our nation."—Michael C. Lambert, University of Missouri, Colombia

"African American Families is a timely work. The strength of this text lies in the depth of coverage, clarity, and the ability to combine secondary sources, statistics and qualitative data to reveal the plight of African Americans in society."—Edward Opoku-Dapaah, Winston-Salem State University

"African American Families is both engaging and challenging and is perhaps one of the most important works I have read in many years. This book will most certainly move the discourse of the socio-economic conditions of black families forward, beyond the boundaries already set by other books in the market. African American Families is an excellent book whose time has come, and one that I would most definitely adopt." —Lateef O. Badru, University of Louisville

African American Families provides a systematic sociological study of contemporary life for families of African descent living in the United States. Analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data, authors Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith identify the structural barriers that African Americans face in their attempts to raise their children and create loving, healthy, and raise the children of the next generation.

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This is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as African American Families, Sociology of the Family, Contemporary Families, and Race and Ethnicity in the departments of Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, African American Studies, and Black Studies.