The Social Dynamics of Family Violence

by Angela J. Hattery, Earl Smith

She died in September by the ugliest means, weighing an unthinkable 18 pounds, half what a 4-year-old ought to. She withered in poverty in a home in Brooklyn where the authorities said she had been drugged and often bound to a toddler bed by her mother, having realized a bare thimble’s worth of ...


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First published March 1, 2012

About the author

Angela Hattery studies sociology and anthropology at Carleton College (BA 1988) before earning her master's and PHD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996). She has held positions at Ball State University (1996-1998), Wake Forest University (1998-2011) and is currently professor and director of the women and gender studies program at George Mason University. She is the author of 11 books, most recently Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change. When not teaching and writing, she enjoys volunteering in her community, she works out daily, and she enjoys reading. She has 2 children, Travis who lives in San Francisco and Emma who lives in Denver. She is originally from Rochester, Minnesota.

Reviews

[Gale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Required textbook for class. I could be biased about loving sociology in general, but this book had some really interesting, shocking, and heartbreaking information. I still liked reading the material.

[Christine Winn · Rating 4 out of 5]

School book. Very well written and informative. I learned lots in this class with this book on a topic I am already pretty well educated on.