Family violence and abuse lecture, with COVID pandemic discussion

I recorded a video lecture on the subject of family violence and abuse, including intimate partner violence, rape, and sexual abuse, with some discussion of the COVID pandemic implications. The 24-minute video is on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/aDg9PmSqkfk Related pieces that came out after I recorded this: The Telegraph: 'I have five minutes and I need…

Fewer births and divorces, more violence: how the recession affected the American family

I wrote this for The Conversation. Read the original here. Observers may be quick to declare social trends “good” or “bad” for families, but such conclusions are rarely justified. What’s good for one family – or group of families – may be bad for another. And within families, interests do not always align. Divorce is…

New York City police killings: 1964 (life) – 1989 (art) – 2014 (life)

Things change. Some things more than others.

Maybe the recession increased violence after all

If intimate partner violence is partly triggered by men's economic hardship and insecurity, then the 2008-2009 spike might fit a recession story.

Signs of the times, mass shooting edition

Couple ngram associations. See them here.

Guns dividing America (Google edition)

The Force is very strong in this Romney gun correlation.

Are women becoming the violenter sex? (Hanna Rosin edition)

I am not coming unhinged. I am concerned about the damage done by Rosin's corruption of the evidence to support the claim that women's domination is nigh.

NPR on divorce, recession and violence

The sources behind my comments on NPR.

Has the recession increased family violence?

The evidence is not so clear.

Police your teens, or else?

Everyone likes research with important direct implications, but pushing it to the personal level can be misleading.