Richard J Gelles Author & Editor

Murray A. Straus has been a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire since 1968. He is the author of over seventy-five articles on the sociology of the family, South Asia, and rural sociology. Richard J. Gelles is chairman of the department of sociology at the University of Rhode Island. Suzanne K. Steinmetz is an associate professor at the College of Home Economics at the University of Delaware.