Return to Table of ContentsMay 1998
CPCS faculty publish on issues
of domestic, dating violenceProfs. Sylvia Mignon and Carroy "Cuf" Ferguson have each written chapters for a new book, Violence in Intimate Relationships: Examining Sociological and Psychological Issues, edited by Nicki Ali Jackson and Gisele Cassanova Oates, published by Butterworth-Heinemann.
The book was profiled at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March. Mignon's chapter is titled "Husband Battering: A Review of the Debate over a Controversial Phenomenon," and Ferguson's chapter is "Dating Violence as a Social Phenomenon."
Mignon is also working with Prof. William Holmes of the Criminal Justice Program and Prof. Calvin Larson of the sociology department on a family violence text, which examines the relationship between forms of family abuse and subsequent deviant or criminal behavior.