STRAUS, Murray A.

STRAUS, Murray A. American, b. 1926. Genres: Criminology/True Crime, Psychology, Sociology. Career: Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, 1968-. Consultant, U.S. National Institute of Mental Health, and National Science Foundation Associate Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1959-61; Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1961-68. Publications: (with J.I. Nelson) Sociological Analysis: An Empirical Approach through Replication, 1968; Family Analysis: Readings and Replications, 1969; Family Measurement Techniques, 1969, (with B. Brown) rev. ed., 1978; (co-ed.) Family Problem Solving, 1971; (with G. Hotaling) The Social Causes of Husband-Wife Violence, 1980; (co-author) Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family, 1980; (with others) The Dark Side of Families: Current Family Violence Research, 1983; (with A. Lincoln) Crime and the Family, 1985; (with A.S. Linsky) Social Stress in the United States: Links to Regional Patterns of Crime and Illness, 1986; (with R. Gelles) Intimate Violence, 1988; (with L. Baron) The Four Theories of Rape in the United States, 1989; (with R. Gelles) Physical Violence in American Families, 1990; Beating the Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment in American Families and the Effects on Children, 1994, 2nd ed., 2001; (ed. with S.M. Stith) Understanding Partner Violence, 1995. Address: University of New Hampshire, Family Research Laboratory, 126 Horton SSC, Durham, NH 03824, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]