9th International Family Violence Research Conference

Presenters Conference Schedule
Updated 6/9/2005

2005 Featured Speakers

Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Ph.D.

Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN is the Anna D. Wolf Chair and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her BSN, MSN and PhD are from Duke University, Wright State University and the University of Rochester Schools of Nursing. She has been conducting advocacy policy work and research in the area of domestic violence since 1980. Dr. Campbell has been the PI of 9 major NIH, NIJ or CDC research grants and published more than 120 articles and seven books on this subject. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Nursing, has served as a member of the congressionally appointed US Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, and is currently on the Boards of Directors of the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco and the House of Ruth Battered Women's Shelter in Baltimore.

Presentation Topic: What Battered Women Know and Do: Results and Methodological Challenges from the Domestic Violence Risk Assessment Validation Experiment.

Richard Felson, Ph.D.

Richard B. Felson is Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology at The Pennsylvania State University. He has published numerous articles on crime and violence, much of it published in Criminology and Journal of Marriage and Families. His latest book is Violence and Gender Reexamined (American Psychological Association, 2002).

Presentation Topic: How is couple violence different from other forms of violence?

R. Karl Hanson, Ph.D.

R. Karl Hanson completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Waterloo (Ontario) in 1986, after which he conducted clinical work with sexual and violent offenders for the Ontario Ministry of Correctional Services and the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. Since 1991, he has been a Senior Research Officer with Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (Ottawa). He is an Adjunct Research Professor with the Psychology Department of Carleton University. His research on sexual offenders has attracted considerable international interest, for which he was awarded the 2002 Significant Achievement Award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He is also been honored as a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. His current research interests involve the identification of dynamic risk factors, the empirical evaluation of treatment effectiveness, and methods for improving the community supervision of sexual offenders.

Presentation Topic: Assessing the risk of violence: Static, stable and acute factors.

Glenda Kaufman Kantor, Ph.D.

Glenda Kaufman Kantor is a sociologist and Research Associate Professor at the Family Research Laboratory, the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Research on Crimes Against Children at the University of New Hampshire, where she is also Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory National Institute of Mental Health Family Violence Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program. She has written and edited several books and monographs, and published or presented over seventy papers. Her major interests are related to the assessment and prevention of maladaptive risk behaviors, the etiology and prevention of intimate violence, the linkages between substance abuse and family violence, and child neglect and structural and cultural influences on wife abuse. She has conducted several national family violence and or substance abuse related research studies in the United States including current and recent federally funded studies on the causes and assessment of child neglect in community and clinical samples; a national bi-lingual study of family violence and substance abuse, a randomized clinical trials study on parental substance abuse, child maltreatment, and child protective service interventions; an evaluation of a multi-systems state collaboration on responses to the co-occurrence of domestic violence and child abuse, and an international evaluation of U.S. Air Force family violence prevention initiatives, including the development of a measure to screen risks for spousal and child abuse among new parents that is now being used by the U.S. Department of Defense to target the provision of services.

Presentation Topic: Opening Pandora's Box: Defining and Responding to the Co-occurrence of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment

Murray A. Straus, Ph.D.

Murray A. Straus is Professor of Sociology and founder and Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. He has been President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Eastern Sociological Society, and the National Council on Family Relations. He is the author or co-author of over 200 articles on the family, research methods, and South Asia; and fifteen books, including Stress, Culture, and Aggression (Yale, 1995), Beating The Devil Out of Them: Corporal Punishment In American Families (Transaction, 2001), The Primordial Violence: Corporal Punishment, Cognitive Development, and Crime (AltaMira, 2005).

Presentation Topic: Gender and Partner Violence in World Perspective: Some results from the International Dating Violence Study