Jeffrey L Edleson
International Research, Training and Technical Assistance to End Violence Against Women and Children
Hague Domestic Violence Project
Men's Check-Up Research Project
Now Available: Parenting by Men Who Batter: New Directions in Assessment and Intervention (Co-edited with Oliver J. Williams) Oxford University Press.
Jeffrey L. Edleson,
Ph.D., is a professor in the University of Minnesota School
of Social Work and Director of the Minnesota
Center Against Violence and Abuse. He is one of the world's leading authorities on children exposed to domestic violence and has published over 100 articles and eight books on domestic violence, groupwork, and program evaluation. Prof. Edleson is the co-author with the late Susan Schechter of Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice (1999, co-authored with Susan Schechter, NCJFCJ). Better known as the "Greenbook", this best-practices guide has been the subject of six federally-funded and numerous other demonstration sites across the country. Prof. Edleson has also conducted intervention research and
provided technical assistance to domestic violence programs and research projects across North America as well as in several other countries including Germany, Israel, Cyprus, India, Australia, Korea and Singapore.
Prof. Edleson was a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on Research on Violence Against Women. He is a consultant to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He is a founding member of the Sheila
Wellstone Institute. Prof. Edleson's research,
policy and practice interests have earlier focused on research on batterer
intervention programs. In recent years, his work has focused primarily
on the impact of adult domestic violence on children and how social systems
respond to these children. The results of this research are available
on the LINK Research Project
website. He is also (1) the Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Roger Roffman on the Men's Domestic Abuse Check-Up project funded by the National Institute
of Drug Abuse and being implemented at the University of Washington, (2) the Co-Principal Investigator on a project focused on Hague Convention cases involving domestic violence funded by the National Institute of Justice and jointly being conducted with Dr. Taryn Lindhorst at the University of Washington and (3) the Co-Principal Investigator
overseeing the Violence Against Women Online Resources website. Prof. Edleson is an Associate Editor of the journal Violence Against Women and has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He is Co-Editor of the Oxford University Press book series on Interpersonal Violence. His own books include Working with Children and Adolescents in Groups, co-authored with Sheldon D. Rose (1987, Jossey-Bass), Intervention for Men who Batter: An Ecological Approach, co-authored with Richard M. Tolman (1992, Sage Publications), Ending the Cycle of Violence: Community Responses to Children of Battered Women, co-edited with Einat Peled and Peter G. Jaffe (1995, Sage Publications), Future Interventions with Battered Women and Their Families, co-edited with Zvi Eisikovits (1996, Sage Publications), Evaluating Domestic Violence Programs (1997, Domestic Abuse Project), and Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice (1999, co-authored with Susan Schechter, National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges). His most recent books are entitled The Sourcebook on Violence Against Women (2001, co-edited with Claire Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen, Sage Publications), Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children: The Future of Research, Intervention, and Social Policy (2001, co-edited with Sandra Graham-Bermann, American Psychological Association Books) and Violence Against Women: Classic Papers (2004, co-edited with Claire Renzetti and Raquel Kennedy Bergen, Allyn & Bacon). He has just published a new book entitled Parenting by Men Who Batterer: New Directions in Assessment and Intervention (co-edited with Oliver J. Williams, Oxford University Press) and is developing the multi-volume Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence (co-edited with Claire Renzetti, Sage Reference). He is a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received his
Masters and Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
He is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Minnesota and has
practiced in elementary and secondary schools and in several domestic
violence agencies. Contact information: Last
updated in November 2006
MINCAVA
105 Peters Hall
1404 Gortner Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
tel (612) 624-8795
fax (612) 625-4288
email jedleson@umn.edu