And Justice for All: Families & the Criminal Justice System
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About the Editors
Joyce A. Arditti is Professor of Human Development at Virginia Tech. She received her doctorate in Family Studies from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her research interests include family disruption, parent-child relationships in vulnerable families, and public policy. Her scholarship is recognized nationally and abroad and she has published numerous empirical and review articles in therapy, human services, family studies, and criminal justice journals. She is the author of the book Parental incarceration and the family: Psychological and social effects of imprisonment on children, parents, and care-givers published by New York University Press, for which she was the 2014 recipient of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Outstanding Book Award, an honor awarded to a member of ACJS who has authored a book representing extraordinary contribution in the field of criminal justice. Joyce is also the editor of the recently released textbook Family Problems: Stress, Risk, & Resilience published by John Wiley & Sons.
Joyce served as the editor-in-chief of Family Relations: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies from 2004 to 2009. She is a fellow of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), and Chair of the Research & Theory Section (NCFR). She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Child & Family Studies, serves on various editorial boards, and is actively involved in research projects dealing with families involved in the criminal justice system.
Tessa le Roux is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Donahue Institute for Values and Public Life (DI) at Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts. She received her doctorate in Sociology from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Before moving to the U.S. in 1997, she was on the faculty of the University of South Africa and later the University of Pretoria. Her main scholarly work is in the field of gender and family studies and she has published on teenage pregnancy, domestic work and migration, and caregivers and family ideology. Books include Die Gesin: Gister en Vandag (The Family: Yesterday and Today) and We have families too: Live in domestics talk about their lives. Her teaching and administrative work is focused on issues of social justice and human rights.
Tessa is the book review editor for the Journal of Family Theory and Review, and she serves on various review boards. She is a past board member of the Committee on Family Research of the International Sociological Association, and of PXE International. She has been a Groves member since 2001, and currently serves on the Groves board.
Libby Balter Blume is Professor of Psychology, Community Development & Architecture, and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Detroit Mercy. She directs the program in Developmental Psychology and Certified Family Life Education and received the Faculty Excellence Award in 2015. Libby has coauthored two textbooks, Middle Childhood Development: A Contextual Approach and Middle Childhood to Middle Adolescence: Development from Ages 8 to 18, and has written chapters on childhood studies and feminist family theory for Oxford Bibliographies the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies, the Sourcebook of Family Theory and Research, and the Handbook of Feminist Family Studies.
Libby is the founding series editor of Groves Monographs on Marriage & Family, founding editor of Michigan Family Review, associate editor for Journal of Family Issues, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Family Theory and Review.
