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62
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39705
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3167
National Ranking
1794

Overview

Richard J. Gelles was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their work spanned multiple fields, primarily Medicine, Psychology, and Social Sciences, with research contributions also within subfields such as Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Clinical Psychology, and Health.

Gelles's research covered several main topics, including:

  • Sports injuries and prevention
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research

One of the recent papers authored with Carter E. Timon was titled "Child Sexual Abuse of Elite Athletes: Prevalence, Perceptions, and Mental Health", published in 2022 in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.

Their frequent coauthors included:

  • Carter E. Timon
  • Stephanie J. Dallam
  • Marci A. Hamilton
  • Emily Liu
  • Janella S. Kang

Publications by Gelles were most commonly found in the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • Intimate Violence in Families

    Richard James Gelles

  • The Violent Home

    Richard James Gelles

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

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  • Determinants of violence in the family: toward a theoretical integration

    R.J. Gelles;Straus

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

    Murray A. Straus;Richard J. Gelles

  • Abused Wives: Why Do They Stay.

    Richard J. Gelles

  • Violence in the family: A review of research in the seventies.

    Richard J. Gelles

  • CHILD ABUSE AS PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: A Sociological Critique and Reformulation

    Richard J. Gelles

  • Verbal aggression by parents and psychosocial problems of children

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

  • Current Controversies on Family Violence

    Donileen R. Loseke;Richard J. Gelles;Mary M. Cavanaugh

  • Adolescent Risk Behaviors and Religion: Findings from a National Study.

    Jill W. Sinha;Ram A. Cnaan;Richard J. Gelles

  • Physical Violence in 8145 Families in American Families: Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence

    Murray A. Straus;Richard J. Gelles

  • The Violent Home: A Study of Physical Aggression Between Husbands and Wives

    Richard James Gelles

  • A profile of violence toward children: A national study

    Glenn D. Wolfner;Richard J. Gelles

  • Violence in the American Family

    Richard J. Gelles;Murray A. Straus

  • The Dark Side of Families: Current Family Violence Research

    David Finkelhor;Richard J Gelles;Gerald T Hotaling;Murray A Straus

  • Aggression: Its Causes, Consequences, and Control.

    Richard J. Gelles;Leonard Berkowitz

  • Current Controversies on Family Violence

    Teresa Julian;Richard J. Gelles;Donileen R. Loseke

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray A. Straus
Murray A. Straus University of New Hampshire
David Finkelhor
David Finkelhor University of New Hampshire
Wayne F. Velicer
Wayne F. Velicer University of Rhode Island
Scott R. Beach
Scott R. Beach University of Pittsburgh
Howard Dubowitz
Howard Dubowitz University of Maryland, Baltimore
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
Leonard Berkowitz
Leonard Berkowitz University of Wisconsin–Madison

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