Gelles, Richard J. (Personal Name)

His The violent home, 1974, c1972.

Out of harm's way, 2017: t.p. (Richard Gelles) data view screen (Richard J. Gelles; holds The Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania)

LC database, July 8, 2020 (access point: Gelles, Richard J.; usage: Richard J. Gelles)

Philadelphia inquirer WWW site, viewed July 8, 2020 (in obituary posted July 6, 2020: Richard J. Gelles, 73, of Philadelphia, a professor of social policy at the University of Pennsylvania whose pioneering research about family violence and child welfare helped shape government policy and social work practices nationwide, died June 26 at home. Born in Newton, Mass., Dr. Gelles graduated from Newton South High School and earned a bachelor's degree from Bates College, a master's degree in sociology from the University of Rochester, and a doctorate in sociology from the University of New Hampshire. He came to Penn in 1998 from the University of Rhode Island, where he had taught and conducted research on domestic violence since 1973. In 2001, he became interim dean of what was then Penn's School of Social Work. He was named dean in 2003. Dr. Gelles was a sociologist at Penn from 1998 to 2019 and occupied the Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family Violence. He was faculty director of the school's Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research)