Jeffrey L. Edleson
Director, Minnesota Center
Against Violence and Abuse
Professor
Office: 170 Peters Hall
Phone: (612) 624-8795
E-mail: jedleson@umn.edu
Mailing Address: 105 Peters Hall
Web site:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jedleson
Degrees & Institutions
Ph.D., Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979
M.S.W., Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975
Interest Areas
Violence against women and children, international child abduction,
program evaluation and participatory research methods
Current Research
Conducting a multiyear project to better understand the overlap
between child maltreatment and woman battering in the same families.
Interested in developing and testing new formal and informal responses
to these families.
Books
Renzetti, C.M. & Edleson, J.L. (2008). Encyclopedia of interpersonal violence (Vols. 1-2). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference.
Edleson, J.L. & Williams, O.J. (2007). Parenting by men who batter: New directions for assessment and intervention. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Bergen, R.K., Edleson, J.L. & Renzetti, C.M. (Eds.). (2005). Violence against women: Classic papers. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Renzetti, C.M., Edleson, J.L. & Bergen, R.K. (Eds.). (2001). Sourcebook on violence against women. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Graham-Bermann, S.A. & Edleson, J.L. (Eds.). (2001). Domestic violence in the lives of children: The future of research, intervention and social policy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Edleson, J.L. & Eisikovits, Z.C. (Eds.). (1996). Future interventions with battered women and their families: Visions for policy, practice and research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Peled, E., Jaffe P.G. & Edleson, J.L. (Eds.). (1995). Ending the cycle of violence: Community responses to children of battered women. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Edleson, J.L. & Tolman, R.M. (1992). Intervention for men who batter: An ecological approach. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Rose, S.D. & Edleson, J.L. (1987). Working with children and
adolescents in groups. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Recent Publications
Edleson, J.L., Shin, N. & Johnson, K.K. (In press). Measuring children’s exposure to domestic violence: The development and testing of the Child Exposure to Domestic Violence (CEDV) Scale. Children and Youth Services Review.
Parker, T., Collins, M., Rogers, K. & Edleson, J.L. (In press). Danger Zone: Battered mothers and their children in supervised visitation. Violence Against Women.
Shetty, S. & Edleson, J.L. (2005). Adult domestic violence in cases of international parental child abduction. Violence Against Women, 11, 115-138.
Edleson, J.L., Ellerton, A.L., Seagren, E.A., Schmidt, S.O., Kirchberg, S.L. & Ambrose, A.T. (2007). Assessing child exposure to adult domestic violence. Children and Youth Services Review, 29, 961-971.
Edleson, J.L., Gassman-Pines, J. & Hill, M.B. (2006). Defining child
exposure to domestic violence as neglect: Minnesota's
difficult
experience. Social Work, 51, 167- 174.
Mbilinyi, L.F., Edleson, J.L., Beeman, S.K. & Hagemeister, A.K.(In press). What happens to children when their mothers are battered? Results from a four city anonymous telephone survey. Journal of Family Violence.
Gewirtz, A. & Edleson, J.L. (In press). Young children's exposure to adult domestic violence: Towards a risk and resilience framework for research and intervention. Journal of Family Violence. (earlier version online at http://www.uiowa.edu/~socialwk/publications.html
Edleson, J.L. (2006). A response system for children exposed to
domestic violence: Public policy in support of best
practices. In
Feerick, M. & Silverman, G.B.(Eds.). Children Exposed to
Violence (pp. 191-211). Baltimore, MD: Brookes.
English, D.J., Edleson, J.L. & Herrick, M.E. (2005). Domestic violence in one state's child protective caseload: A study of differential case dispositions and outcomes. Children and Youth Services Review, 27, 1183-1201.
Kohl, P.L., Edleson, J.L., English, D.J. & Barth, R.P. (2005). Domestic violence and pathways into child welfare services: Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Children and Youth Services Review, 27, 1167-1182.
Shetty, S. & Edleson, J.L. (2005). Adult domestic violence in cases
of
international parental child abduction. Violence Against
Women, 11,
115 - 138.
Daro, D., Edleson, J.L. & Pinderhughes, H. (2004). Finding common
ground in the study of child maltreatment, youth violence,
and adult
domestic violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence,
19, 1-17.
Edleson, J.L. (2004). Should childhood exposure to adult domestic
violence be defined as child maltreatment under the law? In
P.G.
Jaffe, L.L. Baker & A. Cunningham (Eds.), Protecting
Children from
Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention.
(pp. 8-
29). New York, NY: Guilford.
Edleson, J.L., Mbilinyi, L.F., Beeman, S.K. & Hagemeister, A.K.
(2003).
How children are involved in adult domestic violence: Results
from a
four city telephone survey. Journal of Interpersonal
Violence, 18 (1)
18-32.
Edleson, J.L. & Bible, A.L. (2001). Collaborating for women's safety:
Partnerships between research and practice. In C. Renzetti,
J.L.
Edleson & R.K. Bergen (Eds.), Sourcebook on violence
against
women. (pp. 73-95). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Edleson, J.L. (2001). Studying the co-occurrence of child
maltreatment
and woman battering in families. In S.A. Graham-Bermann, &
J.L.
Edleson (Eds.), Domestic violence in the lives of
children: The future
of research, intervention and social policy. (pp.
91-110).
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Mbilinyi, L., Hagemeister, A.K., Edleson, J.L. & Beeman, S.K. (2000).
Social work response to the co-occurrence of child
maltreatment and
woman abuse in families. In N.T. Tan & E. Envall (Eds.),
Social work
around the world. (pp. 152-164). Switzerland:
International
Federation of Social Workers.
Beeman, S., Hagemeister, A. & Edleson, J.L. (2001). Case assessment
and service receipt in families experiencing both child
maltreatment
and woman battering. Journal of Interpersonal Violence,
16, 437-
458.
Schechter, S. & Edleson, J.L. (2000). Domestic violence and
children:
Creating a public response. New York, NY: Center on
Crime,
Communities and Culture of the Open Society Institute.
Beeman, S. & Edleson, J.L. (2000). Collaborating on family safety:
Challenges for children's and women's advocates. Journal
of
Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 3 (1), 345-358.
Co-published
in R. Geffner & P.G. Jaffe, Children exposed to family
violence:
Intervention, prevention, and policy implications.
Binghamton, NY:
Haworth Press.