Family Violence and Criminal Justice ─ A Life-Course Approach

For future professionals, researchers, college professors, and policy makers, Payne (criminal justice, Georgia State U.) and Gainey (sociology and criminal justice, Old Dominion U.) offer a text on family violence from a life-course perspective. They address theories, research methods, the historical context, forms of violence, and responses of the criminal justice system. This edition contains a new chapter on the collaborative response to family violence cases over the life course. Chapters on co-occurring child abuse/domestic violence and domestic violence have been combined. Also added are tips for professionals dealing with issues discussed in each chapter and new sections on quasi-experiments, social disorganization and the power control wheel, child maltreatment trends, child facilities, economic abuse, elder sexual abuse, elder abuse trends, the processing of criminal justice cases, and restorative justice. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Brian K. Payne is Vice Provost for Graduate and Undergraduate Academic Programs at Old Dominion University, where he is tenured in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Payne is the author or co-author of more than 160 journal articles and seven books, including Family Violence and Criminal Justice (Anderson Publishing/Elsevier, with Randy Gainey). He is a former editor of the American Journal of Criminal Justice and past president of the Southern Criminal Justice Association, and is 2014-2015 President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

Randy R. Gainey received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Washington in 1995. He is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. He has published more than 60 articles in scholarly journals covering a broad number of areas, including sentencing practices, the use of alternative sanctions, the fear of crime, and substance use and abuse. In addition to Family Violence and Criminal Justice: A Life-Course Approach (with Brian Payne) for Anderson Publishing, he has co-authored Drugs and Policing (with Brian Payne) and Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective (with Michelle Inderbitzen and Kristen Bates).