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  • 1971 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Murray A. Straus was affiliated with the University of New Hampshire in the United States. Their research spanned multiple areas within the social sciences, focusing on topics related to interpersonal violence and victimization.

The main fields of study in their research included Social Sciences, with subfields covering Health, Gender Studies, and Sociology and Political Science. The scope of their work reflected interdisciplinary approaches to understanding social and behavioral phenomena.

The scientist's main research topics were:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

Regarding publication venues, the researcher had contributions in:

  • Partner Abuse

A notable recent paper co-authored with Denise A. Hines, published in 2020, was titled "Using Dyadic Concordance Types to Understand Frequency of Intimate Partner Violence" and appeared in the journal Partner Abuse.

Frequent co-authors included:

  • Denise A. Hines
  • Emily M. Douglas

Straus was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1971.

Best Publications

  • Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales

    Murray A. Straus

  • The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2): Development and Preliminary Psychometric Data

    Murray A. Straus;Sherry L. Hamby;S. U. E. Boney-McCoy;David B. Sugarman

  • Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family

    Murray Arnold Straus;Richard J. Gelles;Suzanne K. Steinmetz

  • Physical Violence in American Families

    Murray Arnold Straus;Richard J. Gelles;Christine Smith

  • Societal Change and Change in Family Violence from 1975 to 1985 As Revealed by Two National Surveys

    Murray A. Straus;Richard J. Gelles

  • Identification of child maltreatment with the Parent–Child Conflict Tactics Scales: Development and psychometric data for a national sample of American parents.

    Murray A Straus;Sherry L Hamby;David Finkelhor;David W Moore

  • Physical Violence in American Families: Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8,145 Families.

    Ann Goetting;Murray A. Straus;Richard J. Gelles

  • Physical Violence in American Families: Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8,145 Families

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  • The Conflict Tactics Scales and Its Critics: An Evaluation and New Data on Validity and Reliability

    Murray A. Straus

  • Prevalence of Violence Against Dating Partners by Male and Female University Students Worldwide

    Murray A. Straus

  • A short form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales, and typologies for severity and mutuality.

    Murray A. Straus;Emily M. Douglas

  • How violent are American families?: Estimates from the National Family Violence Resurvey and other studies.

    Murray A. Straus;Richard J. Gelles

  • Corporal punishment by American parents: national data on prevalence, chronicity, severity, and duration, in relation to child and family characteristics

    Murray A. Straus;Julie H. Stewart

  • Gender Differences in Reporting Marital Violence and Its Medical and Psychological Consequences

    Jan E. Stets;Murray A. Straus

  • Dominance and symmetry in partner violence by male and female university students in 32 nations

    Murray A. Straus

  • The “Drunken Bum” Theory of Wife Beating

    Glenda Kaufman Kantor;Murray A. Straus

  • The Marriage License as a Hitting License: A Comparison of Assaults in Dating, Cohabiting, and Married Couples

    Jan E. Stets;Murray A. Straus

  • Verbal aggression by parents and psychosocial problems of children

    Yvonne M. Vissing;Murray A. Straus;Richard J. Gelles;John W. Harrop

  • Spanking by Parents and Subsequent Antisocial Behavior of Children

    Murray A. Straus;David B. Sugarman;Jean Giles-Sims

  • The Controversy over Domestic Violence by Women: A Methodological, Theoretical, and Sociology of Science Analysis

    Murray A. Straus

  • Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques

    John Touliatos;Barry F. Perlmutter;Murray Arnold Straus

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Gelles
Richard J. Gelles University of Pennsylvania
David Finkelhor
David Finkelhor University of New Hampshire
Sherry Hamby
Sherry Hamby Sewanee: The University of the South
Denise A. Hines
Denise A. Hines George Mason University
Manuel Gámez-Guadix
Manuel Gámez-Guadix Autonomous University of Madrid
Linda M. Williams
Linda M. Williams Wellesley College
Melissa K. Holt
Melissa K. Holt Boston University
Jan E. Stets
Jan E. Stets University of California, Riverside

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