Renzetti, Claire M.

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Name (Latin)
Renzetti, Claire M.
Date of birth
1957-02-13
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 21145516
Wikidata: Q105765199
Library of congress: n 85372886
HAI10: 000234969
Sources of Information
  • Violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships, 2017:eCIP t.p. (Claire M. Renzetti) data view screen (Ph.D.; the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women, and Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Kentucky; co-editor with Jeffrey Edleson of the Interpersonal Violence book series for Oxford University Press; and editor of the Gender and Justice book series for University of California Press; has authored or edited 21 books as well as numerous book chapters and articles in professional journals; much of her research has focused on the violent victimization experiences of socially and economically marginalized women; current research includes an evaluation of a horticultural therapy program at a shelter for battered women, studies examining the relationship between religiosity and intimate partner violence perpetration and victimization, an evaluation of coordinated community services for human trafficking victims, and an evaluation of a human trafficking training program for law enforcement officers)
  • Curran, D.J. Social problems, 1986:CIP t.p. (Claire M. Renzetti, Dept. of Sociology, St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia, PA)
  • Women, crime, and criminal justice, 2000:CIP t.p. (Claire M. Renzetti) data sheet (b. 02-13-1957)
  • Routledge international handbook of crime and gender studies, 2013:eCIP t.p. (Claire M. Renzetti) data view screen (is the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence against Women; professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky)

Wikipedia description:

Claire M. Renzetti (born 1957) is an American sociologist and criminologist. She is the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair in the Center for Research on Violence Against Women at the University of Kentucky. She is a professor in the Department of Sociology and at the Center for Research on Violence Against Women. In 2005/06 she served as President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Renzetti received all her degrees in Sociology from the University of Delaware culminating in Ph.D. in 1982. The title of her dissertation was: Purity vs. Politics: The Legislation of Morality in Progressive New York, 1890-1920. She was an assistant professor of sociology at Saint Joseph's University from 1981 to 2006 and a professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work at the University of Dayton from 2006 to 2010. In 2010 she moved to the University of Kentucky.

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